Paramount released a new trailer for Children of Blood and Bone on November 12, and the film opens in US theaters on Friday, January 15. Gina Prince-Bythewood directs the adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi's young adult fantasy novel, and the two wrote the screenplay together.
Thuso Mbedu plays Zélie, a young woman in the kingdom of Orïsha on a quest to restore the magic that was violently taken from her people. This trailer gives more room to the man who took it, Chiwetel Ejiofor's King Saran, who confronts a captured Zélie and treats magic as a disease to be stamped out.
It also widens the world. Cynthia Erivo has more to do as the commander Kaea, and the trailer shows off the lionaires and snow leopardaires, giant creatures that travel with its characters. Tems, the soundtrack's executive music producer, debuts a new song under the footage.
Prince-Bythewood made The Woman King feel physical and lived in, and that is the hope here. A trailer cannot prove a fantasy world holds together for a full film, but this one makes the conflict and the stakes clear. January 15 is the date.
