Elizabeth Olsen is getting her personal tackle “Defending Your Life” with a love triangle twist. The previous MCU star and indie darling leads David Freyne’s A24 romantic comedy “Eternity” set within the afterlife. Miles Teller and Callum Turner co-star as Olsen’s ex-husbands.
The logline reads: “In an afterlife the place souls have one week to determine the place to spend eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) is confronted with the unimaginable selection between the person she spent her life with (Miles Teller) and her old flame (Callum Turner), who died younger and has waited many years for her to reach.”
“Eternity” director Freyne beforehand helmed 2020 movie “Relationship Amber.” Olsen and Teller each government produce “Eternity,” which is debuting at TIFF 2025.
Olsen beforehand informed Bustle that “Eternity” harks again to traditional Outdated Hollywood movies. “It’s a Billy Wilder sort of movie,” she stated. “It’s old-fashioned and timeless. It’s a heat, heartfelt, humorous piece that can make individuals really feel good. It’s a particular movie about how we glance again at one’s life, each ultimately and the whole thing of it, not only a second in time. It’s a mirrored image of the present of what it’s to be alive and who we select to spend that point with.”
Olsen detailed her resolution to broaden past the superhero style and return to her indie roots. “I feel that’s the reason, as a result of I’ve spent so a few years doing Marvel, that I really feel like all the opposite jobs I’ve to do have to actually mirror my private style,” she stated throughout NPR’s “Wild Card” podcast, “as a result of as a lot as I really like being part of this world — and I’m happy with what I’ve been in a position to do with the character — it’s probably not the artwork that I eat, which I’ve been very, I feel, sincere about… Regardless that I don’t search the phrase validation, essentially, I do need this sort of understanding of the larger image of me as a inventive individual on the planet and what my targets are. I feel [I have to prove] my style in a inventive approach. I feel I haven’t at all times efficiently made selections in my work which are aligned with my private style and that’s one thing I really feel like I’m nonetheless making an attempt to show once I meet individuals, particularly if it’s a work-type assembly.”
Olsen most lately led the movie “The Evaluation” and continues to be making an attempt to get Todd Solondz’s “Love Youngster” greenlit after funding for the indie auteur’s film acquired pulled last-minute in 2024.
A24 will launch “Eternity” in theaters. Try the trailer beneath.