After playing the beloved Hannah Baker on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, Katherine Langford returns to the streaming service playing a much different character in the upcoming fantasy series Cursed.
Netflix has released the first trailer for Cursed, a 10-episode series that re-tells the legend of King Arthur through a teenage sorceress named Nimue (Langford).
According to Arthurian legend, Nimue would ultimately become the Lady in the Lake, though this series follows her teaming up with a young Arthur (Devon Terrell).
Trailer: After playing the beloved Hannah Baker on Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, Katherine Langford returns to the streaming service playing a much different character in the upcoming fantasy series Cursed
The trailer begins with Nimue sleeping when her voice in voiceover says, ‘They came while we slept’ as she opens her eyes and find men with swords destroying her village.
The voice adds these men came, ‘to cleanse the world of our kind, because we’re different, because magic flows within us, because we have what they want.’
There is also a shot of Merlin the wizard (Gustaf Skarsgard), as he glances down at the ‘sword in the stone’ of Arthurian legend.
Open: The trailer begins with Nimue sleeping when her voice in voiceover says, ‘They came while we slept’ as she opens her eyes and find men with swords destroying her village
Cleanse: The voice adds these men came, ‘to cleanse the world of our kind, because we’re different, because magic flows within us, because we have what they want’
Merlin: There is also a shot of Merlin the wizard (Gustaf Skarsgard), as he glances down at the ‘sword in the stone’ of Arthurian legend
Another shot shows a soldier running for the sword and a hooded figure picking it up, as Nimue adds, ‘the legend says this sword belongs to the one true king.’
The figure who pulls the sword out engages in battle but is pushed back into the lake… but it’s Nimue that emerges hoodless with the sword.
‘But what if the sword… chooses a queen?’ Nimue says, as she holds the sword at the ready… while her face starts changing and the sword starts glowing as the trailer comes to an end.
True king: Another shot shows a soldier running for the sword and a hooded figure picking it up, as Nimue adds, ‘the legend says this sword belongs to the one true king’
Hooded: The figure who pulls the sword out engages in battle but is pushed back into the lake… but it’s Nimue that emerges hoodless with the sword
Queen: ‘But what if the sword… chooses a queen?’ Nimue says, as she holds the sword at the ready… while her face starts changing and the sword starts glowing as the trailer comes to an end
The series also stars Daniel Sharman (Fear the Walking Dead, Medici), Peter Mullan (Ozark), Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion), Shalom Brune-Franklin (The State, Our Girl), Sebastian Armesto (Poldark, Broadchurch), Emily Coates (Flack), Catherine Walker (Versailles, The Delinquent Season) and Billy Jenkins (The Crown, Holmes & Watson, Humans).
Zetna Fuentes (Ray Donovan, Jessica Jones, The Deuce, Shameless) will direct and serve as an executive producer on the first two episodes.
The series is created and executive produced by Frank Miller (Sin City, 300) and Tom Wheeler (Puss in Boots, The Cape) who is also showrunner and writer.
Co-stars: The series also stars Daniel Sharman (Fear the Walking Dead, Medici), Peter Mullan (Ozark), Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion), Shalom Brune-Franklin (The State, Our Girl), Sebastian Armesto (Poldark, Broadchurch), Emily Coates (Flack), Catherine Walker (Versailles, The Delinquent Season) and Billy Jenkins (The Crown, Holmes & Watson, Humans)
Episodes: Zetna Fuentes (Ray Donovan, Jessica Jones, The Deuce, Shameless) will direct and serve as an executive producer on the first two episodes
Tom Wheeler also wrote the companion book Cursed, which Frank Miller illustrated, which was published by Simon & Schuster in October 2019.
Langford is just coming off of the final season of her hit Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, which debuted earlier this month.
Cursed will debut on the Netflix streaming service starting July 17.