Trailer For ETERNAL RETURN Teases a Wild Time-Travel Romance With Naomi Scott and Kit Harington
What if you could travel back in time and find a way to fall in love again? That's the intriguing idea at the center of Eternal Return, an upcoming fantasy romance starring Naomi Scott and Kit Harington.
The film's trailer introduces a mysterious journey through the past, where revisiting old memories might be the key to healing a broken heart.
Directed by Yaniv Raz, the film follows Cass (Scott), a young woman who has shut herself off emotionally following heartbreak and grief. She's reached a point of complete "emotional invulnerability," but an unexpected encounter on her 29th birthday threatens to change everything.
That's when she meets Virgil (Harington), a mysterious cartographer and photographer who has some unusual ideas about how time works.
In the trailer, Cass notices a familiar book in Virgil's possession and asks him about it. His explanation introduces the film's central mystery, saying: “You see, the man who wrote this book believed the past, the present, and the future all coexist at the same time.”
Virgil then invites Cass to attend a funeral the following day for the companion of his friend Malcolm, played by Simon Callow. It's an odd invitation, but Cass accepts, and that's where things start getting interesting.
At the funeral, Malcolm reveals that Virgil is creating a map for him that leads “back to the past.” Cass understandably has a hard time believing any of this. “That’s not possible,” she tells him, prompting Malcolm to respond, “Oh, it isn’t, isn’t it?”
As Cass becomes increasingly curious about Virgil's work, she eventually asks him to create a map of her own past. He agrees, telling her, “Making a map to your past… It’s meant to be an adventure.”
From there, the trailer offers glimpses of a strange journey as Virgil and Malcolm develop a plan to literally travel through time. Their goal is to revisit and potentially change events from Cass's past, helping her reconnect with the emotions she's buried and rediscover her ability to love.
This is an interesting story that mixes time-travel fantasy with a personal love story. Rather than focusing on changing history or preventing some massive catastrophe, Eternal Return uses the idea of time travel to explore heartbreak, second chances, and whether changing the past can really fix the present.
The film also features Sonoya Mizuno, Jay Lycurgo, and Simon Kunz in supporting roles. I'm curious to see how far the film takes its concept of the past, present, and future existing simultaneously. There's plenty of potential for an interesting mystery here, especially with the idea of using maps to navigate personal history.
Eternal Return arrives in theaters on December 4, 2026.