Picture this: You die and get to choose how you want to spend forever — which includes your one true love. Sounds pretty sweet, right? Unfortunately, in the case of the new A24 movie Eternity, which dropped its first trailer on Tuesday, the sweet hereafter comes with a catch: You have two dead husbands, and they’re both vying for a spot next to you in the afterlife. Eep!
Eternity stars Elizabeth Olsen as Joan, the woman in question, who dies shortly after the death of her second husband, Larry, played by Miles Teller. But while Teller’s character is eager to get a jump on the rest of their immortal lives, his wife’s first husband, Luke, played by The Boys in the Boat actor Callum Turner, appears. Apparently, Luke died in “the war” decades earlier — and he’s been waiting for his wife to arrive to kickstart his own eternity ever since.
So, how do you pick?! While the movie will, we hope, answer that question, people who watched the new trailer offered their thoughts in the YouTube comments. Some people thought the ending was reminiscent of Titanic, in which Rose (played by Kate Winslet) seemingly spends the afterlife with her pals on the sunken ship, and her lover-of-two-days Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) instead of the husband she spent more than 40 years raising a family with.
Most people, however, saw Joan picking second husband, Larry, in the end.
“Prediction: Miles Teller wins his wife by giving her his blessing to choose Callum Turner instead of him, because he just wants his wife to be happy and her new husband turns out to be too selfish to do the same, proving Miles Teller cares more about Elizabeth Olsen and that she should pick him,” one wrote.
Another said, “Not me immediately wanting to cry just thinking about how hard it is going to be for her to choose…immediately followed by me thinking, ‘Can’t all three of them just be together for eternity?’”
The idea that Olsen’s character may not need to choose resonated with another viewer, who wrote, “I hope Elizabeth Olsen makes a world for all three of them.”
And another joked, “OMG imagine dying and realizing that compulsory monogamy exists even in the afterlife.”
While a throuple is certainly a possibility, Teller’s character doesn’t believe that it’s the best route. When he sees how his wife’s former spouse is laying on the romance, he vows to make her remember why she fell for him in the first place. But will it be enough to get to spend eternity with his one true love?
Eternity is directed by David Freyne and will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Freyne is credited as cowriter of the film along with former Obama White House aide Patrick Cunnane, whose original script appeared on the 2022 Black List of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays.
Eternity is set to hit theaters in November. Check out the trailer below:
