Co-president of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige confirmed today that the company is eyeing the Eternals for their feature film debut as a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“‘Eternals’ is one of many many many things that we are actively beginning to have creative discussions about,” Feige told The Wrap, “to see if we believe in them enough to put them on a slate.”

The Eternals are a relatively obscure group of Marvel Comics characters, eclipsed mightily by their most famous member, Thanos. So it’s no wonder a movie prominently featuring the Eternals would be brought up now: Thanos is about to take on his first major role in an MCU movie, in Avengers: Infinity War.

You can read more about Thanos and the Eternals in our Thanos explainer, but, in a nutshell, comics artist Jack Kirby created the Eternals, and their eternal foes, the Deviants, as genetically distinct races of people crafted by aliens from early man. Thanos, and his fellow residents of Saturn’s moon, Titan — created by Jim Starlin — were retroactively given a backstory linked to the Eternals: A space-faring splinter group who had picked up and moved.

If Marvel Studios move ahead with an Eternals movie, it has a pretty clean slate to work from — most of the Eternals are not exactly household names, even in the Marvel Universe. There’s really only one who’s as well-known as Thanos, and that’s the Mad Titan’s brother, Starfox (nee ‘Eros’), who becomes something of a superhero on Earth with his ability to control others’ emotions.

But, overall, Feige cautioned, the studio is currently focused on Infinity War, Infinity War’s untitled sequel, Ant Man & The Wasp, Captain Marvel and the untitled sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming.