The Old Guard
The Old Guard is a 2020 American superhero film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and written by Greg Rucka, based on his comic book of the same name. The film stars Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Harry Melling, Veronica Ngo, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and follows a team of immortal mercenaries on a revenge mission.
Plot
Andromache of Scythia ("Andy"), Booker, Joe, and Nicky are centuries-old warriors with unexplained regenerative healing abilities who use their vast experience to work as mercenaries, taking missions that help people. Breaking their rule of never working for the same employers twice, they accept a job from former CIA operative James Copley to rescue a group of kidnapped girls in South Sudan. During the mission, which proves to be a ruse, they are ambushed and killed. After quickly recovering and killing their attackers, they realize that Copley set them up and remotely filmed their regeneration.
More details
author | Greg Rucka |
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contentLocation | Afghanistan Goussainville London Marrakesh South Sudan |
director | Gina Prince-Bythewood |
editor | Terilyn A. Shropshire |
events | immortality |
genre | action adventure drama live-action thriller |
keywords | ambush break capture change of heart cia disturb drown france heal house search iron maiden jump kidnap kill paris rescue rescue mission safe house scythia scythian test than the their way u.s. marine unexplained warn wound |
musicBy | Dustin O'Halloran Hauschka |
producer | A.J. Dix Beth Kono Charlize Theron Dana Goldberg David Ellison Don Granger Marc Evans |
productionCompany | Denver and Delilah Productions Marc Evans Productions Skydance |
publisher | Netflix |
recordedAt | Shepperton Studios |
theme | girls with guns lgbt-related superhero |