Netflix has released a full trailer for Damsel, and while things don't quite cross over into full-on horror territory, we do get a fairy intense and scary first glimpse of the movie's ferocious dragon, who appears to be a lot more intelligent (does he speak?) than we first realized.
"The benchmark of dragons is so high. We worked hard on a new concept, a really great meeting point between fantasy creature [and] real. The dragon in this movie is a character, not only a beast but also something else," director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo explained to Empire in a recent interview.
The fantasy adventure stars Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes) as a princess named Elodie, who believes all of her dreams have come true when she is betrothed to Prince Henry. However, she soon comes to realize that the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to a dragon to repay an ancient debt.
Elodie is abandoned in the fire-breathing beast's cave, and when it becomes clear that no knights in shining armour are coming to save her, she decides to take matters into her own hands and slay the lethal creature herself with the aid of an indominable spirit and a very large sword.
The trailer finds Elodie vowing to escape the cave and make the royal family for all the innocent women who lost their lives, and - spoiler alert - it looks like she manages to do just that, as we see her make her way to Robin Wright's castle with vengeance on her mind.
Check out the new trailer at the link below, along with a recently-released poster.
Damsel was helmed by 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, from a script by Dan Mazeau (Fast X). Brown also serves as an executive producer along with Mazeau, Robert Brown (Hell’s Kitchen), Mark Bomback (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), and Sue Baden-Powell (Alpha). The movie also stars Jurassic World's Nick Robinson, Black Panther's Angela Bassett, and Black Widow's Ray Winstone.
"A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt. Thrown into a cave with a fire-breathing dragon, she must rely on her wits and will to survive," reads the official synopsis.
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