‘Damsel’: Millie Bobby Brown Will Fight A Dragon In New Netflix Movie
Millie Bobby Brownis sticking with Netflix. Having just starred in and executive produced the recentEnola Holmes, Brown will now star in and executive produceDamsel, a fantasy flick from28 Weeks LaterhelmerJuan Carlos Fresnadillo. The story reportedly has Brown playing a princess who is set to be sacrificed to a dragon. You know, fun stuff for the whole family.
Multiple outlets are reporting that Millie Bobby Brown will star inDamsel, a new fantasy film for Netflix. Deadline reports “Brown will play Princess Elodie, who thinks she is marrying Prince Henry, only to find out that she is being sacrificed to a dragon.” Collideradds: “the story follows a young princess who is married off to a rival kingdom and immediately finds herself in danger when it’s revealed that her new home has a nasty little secret — during the harvest season, the kingdom sacrifices their princesses to a hungry dragon,” and that Brown “will play Princess Elodi, whose innocence gives way to a fierce warrior spirit when she finds herself fighting a dragon that’s out to kill her.”
This is Brown’s second feature with Netflix. She recently starred in and producedEnola Holmes. And of course, Netflix also gave her her big break withStranger Things. So it definitely makes sense that both Brown and Netflix are eager to stick together.Stranger Thingsseason 4 is still in production, and beyond Netflix, Brown will next appearGodzilla vs. Kong, the sequel toGodzilla: King of the Monsters, which was Brown’s feature debut.
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, director of28 Weeks Laterand the upcoming Disney live-action remake ofThe Sword in the Stone, is attached to helmDamsel. Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum will produce while Brown will executive produce along with Dan Mazeau, Zack Roth, and Chris Castaldi. The script comes from Mazeau, who also wroteWrath of the Titansand the long-delayed Chris Pratt vehicleCowboy Ninja Viking.
Brown is a good actress – there’s a reason she broke out so big withStranger Things. I haven’t seenEnola Holmesyet, but I did seeGodzilla: King of the Monsters, and while the movie itself was shockingly disappointing, her work in the flick was solid, if not exactly memorable. As for director Fresnadillo, I was a fan of28 Weeks Later, but his follow-up film, 2011’sIntruders, was rather terrible. Fingers crossed thatDamselturns out better! It’s also curious that Fresnadillo is attached to both this andSword and the Stone, since both are fantasy tales.
