The First ‘Pink Sonja’ Trailer Feels Like an Early Aughts Throwback

Late final evening the primary trailer for Red Sonja, Dynamite Comedian’s iconic chain-mail-bikini-clad warrior dropped at life by Revenge star Matilda Lutz, hit the net, and it’s time to occasion prefer it’s 2004. The trailer, which could’ve revealed a bit an excessive amount of about what occurs within the movie, all however guarantees to be a nostalgic throwback to sweeping fantasy and stylized motion vibes from the early to mid-aughts.

Directed by MJ Bassett (Rogue, Solomon Kane), Pink Sonja follows the titular hero, who, after a disembodied voice within the trailer alerts her to the Earth bleeding, asks for the ability to search out those that did this, seemingly for revenge. We love an eco-warrior. What follows is a bunch of cuts to tremendous necessary, decadently dressed, and highfalutin of us (seemingly those bleeding the Earth) trying round frightened as Pink Sonja frees imprisoned individuals and performs fairly clear leg-lock takedowns. That’s till she’s knocked out and thrown right into a gladiatorial enviornment.

From there, it’s struggle, struggle, struggle—enviornment battles, land battles, you identify it—as Pink Sonja leads the resistance towards the elite. An enormous minotaur additionally joins the fray on the facet of the royals, which is able to absolutely be the ultimate act of the movie. Earlier than the trailer closes out, we even get a cheeky joke about how impractical her outfit is by having a shopkeeper who sells it to her throughout her gladiator fights merely say, “The group will adore it.” We’ll see, film trailer. We’ll see.

If our play-by-play of the trailer (which feels extra like an Trustworthy Trailer minus the riff tracks, with how little it saved as a shock with the place the story goes), right here’s the synopsis of the movie:

Captured. Chained. Compelled to struggle for survival. Pink Sonja should battle her manner by means of the blood-soaked pits of a tyrant’s empire and rally a military of outcasts to reclaim her freedom and take down Dragan and his ruthless bride, Darkish Annisia.

Whereas the trailer actually seems to be like a throwback to a bygone period in fantasy motion filmmaking, for director Bassett it was a childhood dream come true.

“I’ve needed to make a Pink Sonja film since I used to be a youngster—she has been a strong presence for me and a personality that I’ve at all times needed to deliver to the display with my very own voice and imaginative and prescient,” Bassett wrote in a press launch when the movie was first introduced.

Alongside Lutz, Pink Sonja additionally stars Martyn Ford (Kingsman: The Golden Circle), Robert Sheehan (The Umbrella Academy), Wallis Day (Batwoman), Michael Bisping (Den of Thieves), Philip Winchester, Trevor Eve, Luca Pasqualino, and Rhona Mitra. The movie’s script was scribed by Joey Soloway (Clear) and Tasha Huo (Netflix’s Tomb Raider). Hopefully the movie will make good on its trailer’s promise of being a film that the gang will love.

Pink Sonja is slated to launch in theaters on August 15 and on digital platforms on August 29.

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