DAMSEL First Trailer Sees Millie Bobby Brown Playing A Princess Who Doesn't Need A Prince To Rescue Her

DAMSEL First Trailer Sees Millie Bobby Brown Playing A Princess Who Doesn't Need A Prince To Rescue Her

Damsel sees Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things playing a princess who will be sacrificed to a dragon in Netflix's next high-fantasy thriller.

By MarkJulian - Nov 13, 2023 08:11 AM EST
Filed Under: Netflix
Source: SFFGazette.com

The updates from Netflix's Geeked Week 2023 just keep coming. It's been a hectic few days, but the streamer saved the first look at one of its most anticipated projects for near the end of the online fan festival.

Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown plays Elodie, a young princess about to marry a neighboring prince, but the opposing kingdom surprisingly plans to use her as a sacrifice to appease a raging dragon and pay an ancient debt.

In this high fantasy fairytale, there's no dashing and heroic prince that's coming to the princess' rescue. Instead, she'll have to save herself from the dragon's lair.

Rumor has it that Brown's heroine slays the dragon early in the film, and that the film spends the majority of its time dealing with the ramifications from her survival.

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Joining Brown in the film are Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Robin Wright (Wonder Woman, House of Cards), Shohreh Aghdashloo (The Expanse), Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), Ray Winstone (The Departed, Black Widow), Brooke Carter (The Peripheral), Mens-Sana Tamakloe (Inception) will play a Knight, Sonya Nisa (Red Rose) and Rui M Tomas (Lusitânia).

Bassett plays Lady Bayford, Princess Elodie's stepmother while Wright portrays Queen Isabelle, the mother of the prince Elodie is set to marry. 

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later, Intruders) is directing from a script written by Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans, Fast X).

There is currently no exact release date for Damsel but Netflix tells fans to expect the film to be released at some point in 2024. The film was originally scheduled to be released on October 13, 2013, but was postponed due to the recently resolved, SAG-AFTRA  actor's strike.

A novelization of the screenplay from Evelyn Skye was  published on April 18, 2023. 

The official synopsis for the film reads, "Damsel is a taut contained thriller about a Princess that thinks she is marrying a prince only to be thrown into a pit where she is being sacrificed to a dragon. Brown plays Elodie, who’s anxiously awaiting her wedding to Prince Henry and feeling pressure from her Father, who needs the money her marriage will bring, be a good, obedient wife.

After marrying Henry, Elodie realizes she’s been tricked into becoming a sacrificial offering for a cruel dragon who intends to eat her. Elodie must fight her way out of the dragon’s lair and eventually saves herself by slaying the Dragon.”

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Origame
Origame - 11/13/2023, 8:44 AM
Sigh. More of these fantasy adventures pretending they're being bold and different by having the princess rescue herself.

Honestly at this point you'd be more original by just having a prince save her.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/13/2023, 9:35 AM
@Origame -

TheLight
TheLight - 11/13/2023, 3:11 PM
@Origame - "Honestly at this point you'd be more original by just having a prince save her."

Hollywood's not than revolutionary enough to pull that off.
Forthas
Forthas - 11/13/2023, 8:47 AM
The description seems to spoil the end.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 11/13/2023, 9:18 AM
@Forthas - It does, but the article says she actually kills the dragon early in the film and the rest of it is about the "ramifications" of her doing that.

So it sounds like the rest of the movie will be about the family of the Prince being pissed off that their ancient debt wasn't repaid? Maybe they come after her family? I don't know, but this does give away too much into and it feels pretty predictable now lol.
Beer85
Beer85 - 11/13/2023, 8:52 AM
How refreshing a movie about a girlboss.
Batmangina
Batmangina - 11/13/2023, 8:53 AM
Holy [frick]ing shit! This is Stunning AND Brave!!!

However, it would have been 100000% better if the ACTUAL Bobby Brown was identifying as MILLIE Bobby Brown and played the damsel.

Oh well, nobody's perfect.
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/13/2023, 9:38 AM
@Batmangina -

Thing94
Thing94 - 11/13/2023, 8:56 AM
Stunning! Brave!

Pass.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 11/13/2023, 8:56 AM
I don't know why so many people got a problem with being rescued or swept off your feet by a hero or heroine. Sounds like a literal dream come true.
Origame
Origame - 11/13/2023, 9:38 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - it is a dream come true. It's just the current wave of feminism has a problem with women defining themselves by their relations with men.

Let's ignore the fact male centered franchises have their characters define themselves by their relations with women (the raimi spiderman franchise literally begins with Peter saying "it's all about a girl") and this is how the human species continues.
Batmangina
Batmangina - 11/13/2023, 10:36 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - How dare you validate literally THOUSANDS of years of human storytelling and mythology.

You can see yourself out, kind sir.
Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 11/13/2023, 8:59 AM
Pass.
IronMan616
IronMan616 - 11/13/2023, 9:00 AM
About to make a Briellion dollars.
mountainman
mountainman - 11/13/2023, 9:00 AM
This will likely bring in all that audience that hates traditional fantasy while maintaining the audience that typically loves fantasy. It is guaranteed to be a hit right?
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/13/2023, 9:19 AM
Of course she doesn't..

Lokiwasright
Lokiwasright - 11/13/2023, 9:21 AM
She needs Jewish man money though...
Spawnnn
Spawnnn - 11/13/2023, 9:23 AM
No men showed up to save her. Tells us all about her.
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 11/13/2023, 10:15 AM
@Spawnnn - It tells us that the character archetype (The Prince) has no interest in saving her, because her sacrifice will appease the dragon that's threatening his kingdom. It's explained very clearly in the article.

It's an interesting subversion of a fairytale trope, but since the trope in question is "women need men to survive," some dudes will see this as a threat for some reason.
Spawnnn
Spawnnn - 11/13/2023, 11:31 AM
@ClintThaHamster - It was just a joke. They can do whatever they want.
TheBlueMorpho
TheBlueMorpho - 11/13/2023, 9:57 AM
"...A Princess Who Doesn't Need A Prince To Rescue Her"

clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 11/13/2023, 10:13 AM
"DAMSEL First Trailer Sees Millie Bobby Brown Playing A Princess Who Doesn't Need A Prince To Rescue Her"
California
California - 11/13/2023, 11:02 AM
The social programming is getting so obvious. One only has to go back to the white papers published by the Tavistock Institute. The word rulers don't want a nuclear family. The biggest obstacle to destroying it was that women, in general, connect emotionally with their sexual partners. Here, the underlying programming is not only that women are strong and don't need men (which is true, but with a strong partnership a couple can achieve more together than individually), but that men are sinister and that if you trust a man, he will betray you at the deepest levels.

It's interesting to trace the programming back from No Strings Attached & Friends With Benefits, to things like No Way Home, and now No Hard Feelings and Poor Things. The programming seeks to equate monogamy with weakness and, repression from males.
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 11/13/2023, 11:59 AM
@California - "One only has to go back to the white papers published by the Tavistock Institute. The word rulers don't want a nuclear family."
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/13/2023, 3:55 PM
@California - And some in here have already been programed.
Demigods
Demigods - 11/13/2023, 11:04 AM
Millie Bobby Brown looks cute in this... At least there's that... but is that enough to drive the next installment in the Panderverse? Nahhh.

NEXT!

It's ashamed because the pandering is so poorly done and so obvious at this point, that there really isn't a way to do it without EVERY single plot point being completely obvious.
braunermegda
braunermegda - 11/13/2023, 11:12 AM
All this stupid girl do is crying, for [frick]s sake
thespiderkat
thespiderkat - 11/13/2023, 11:53 AM
Didn’t Joey King make the same movie just last year?
clintthahamster
clintthahamster - 11/13/2023, 12:02 PM
@thespiderkat - She made a sword and sorcery movie where she played a princess, but there was no dragon, no sacrifice, and it was a martial arts comedy thriller.
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 11/13/2023, 12:33 PM
Oh look yet another “she don’t need no man” tale.
So original and

🙄😴
DocSpock
DocSpock - 11/13/2023, 12:58 PM


What unoriginal anti male crapola chapter 12,067.

It will also turn out that it's a toxic white male dragon before she shames, speechifies, & defeats it.

Patient2670
Patient2670 - 11/13/2023, 1:27 PM
If Alien were to come out today instead of 79. Would people be arguing about it's feminism or wokeness?
marvel72
marvel72 - 11/13/2023, 4:01 PM
@Patient2670 - No because the whole crew showed weakness against the Xenomorph and her character showed strength that was built over the time of the movie and wasn't there from the start.
The way Ripley defeated the alien was done intelligently, she knew she could defeat it one on one like you could defeat a Tiger without a weapon.
Patient2670
Patient2670 - 11/13/2023, 9:52 PM
@marvel72 - My point is simply that aside from the headline, we don't know that this movie will be any different from the way Ripley was treated in Alien. From the first time we saw Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, she's always played tough smart characters. If anything, this is kind of type casting. And there seem to be an awful lot of really angry guys on the board assuming that it's some emasculation tactic.
TheLight
TheLight - 11/13/2023, 3:15 PM
Damn shame that Angela Bassett is in this. She could do alot better than this.

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