Netflix’s The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron, gets new trailer

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

We're now just eight days away from when the Charlize Theron action film THE OLD GUARD is going to be available to watch on the Netflix streaming service, and a new trailer has arrived online. This new trailer can be seen above and offers an early look at the immortal mercenaries at the center of the story.

Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood from a screenplay by Greg Rucka, who also created (with artist Leandro Fernandez) the graphic novel series the film is based on, THE OLD GUARD stars Theron as Andy,

leader of a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die who 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.

Theron and Layne are joined in the cast by Matthias Schoenaerts as a French soldier who fought alongside Napoleon, and Luca Marinelli and Marwan Kenzari as former enemies who fought against each other in the Crusades and are now in a relationship. Chiwetel Ejiofor is in the cast as a CIA operative who has figured out the immortals' identities, and Harry Melling as a pharma executive who wants to capture the immortals and experiment on them.

THE OLD GUARD reaches Netflix on July 10th, and I will be watching it for sure.