New Trailer For Gina Prince-Bythewood's The Old Guard

Netflix has released the trailer to Gina Prince-Bythewood‘s forthcoming action fantasy film adaptation of The Old Guard, which will be released on July 10. Oscar winner Charlize Theron stars as Andromache of Scythia, the leader of a small group of immortal soldiers. Some of the main cast include KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, and Marwan Kenzari.

Other cast members include Chiwetel Ejiofor, Harry Melling and Veronica Ngo. 

Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile (Kiki Layne), the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary.

Gina Prince-Bythewood is directing the adaptation of author Greg Rucka’s comic book for Skydance Media. The screenplay adaptation comes from Rucka and Prince-Bythewood.

The Old Guard” is the nickname for the oldest active-duty regiment in the U.S. Army, but the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment has nothing on the team of immortal soldiers at the center of The Old Guard. The group’s leader, Andy (short for Andronika the Scythian), has been alive since ancient Greece; described as very, very old — 5,000 years old and an Amazon from the Herodotus age.

Theron plays Andy, a 5,000-year-old Amazon from the Herodotus age of ancient Greece, who leads the warriors. They include latest recruit Nile, a U.S. Marine, played by KiKi Layne — who broke through in Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins’ film If Beale Street Could Talk.

Other ancient soldiers in the film include Napoleonic soldier Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts), and two enemies from the Crusades (Luca Marinelli & Marwan Kenzari) who are now lovers.

Ejiofor’s character Copley is an ex-CIA operative who hires the fighters for a rescue mission. He’s not immortal.

Nor is sociopathic businessman Steve Merrick, to be played by Harry Melling, who also joined the production yesterday, along with Veronica Ngo, who played a fighter pilot in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. She will play a character called Quynh.

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