{"id":583332,"date":"2026-04-03T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583332\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:52:09","slug":"anthony-mackies-epic-action-movie-desert-warrior-gets-stunning-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583332\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Mackie’s Epic Action Movie Desert Warrior Gets Stunning Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"

ComingSoon is excited to debut the official Desert Warrior poster for the Anthony Mackie action movie. This comes after the release of the trailer for the historical epic<\/a>, which is set in seventh-century Arabia. The movie will be released in United States theaters on April 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cSet in seventh-century Arabia, Princess Hind (Aiysha Hart) defies her fate, refusing to become a concubine to the ruthless Emperor Kisra (Sir Ben Kingsley). Fleeing into the desert with her father, she is hunted by a merciless army and forced to trust a legendary bandit (Anthony\u00a0Mackie) with secrets of his own. Rising from fugitive to fearless warrior, Hind unites warring tribes for a final stand\u2014the Battle of Dhi Qar, a clash that will change history forever,\u201d says the official synopsis.<\/p>\n

Check out the exclusive first look at the Desert Warrior poster below:<\/p>\n

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Joining Mackie in the Desert Warrior cast are Wonder Man\u2019s Ben Kingsley<\/a>, A Discovery of Witches\u2019 Aiysha Hart<\/a>, Ghassan Massoud (All the Money in the World,\u00a0Kingdom of Heaven), and Sharlto Copley<\/a> (The Witcher, Monkey Man). Director Rupert Wyatt co-wrote the screenplay with Erica Beeney and David Self. MBC STUDIOS, Jeremy Bolt, and Rasha AIEmam produce the film.<\/p>\n

Wyatt is best known for directing 2011\u2019s Rise of the Planet of the Apes, starring James Franco and Andy Serkis. Before that, he made a 2003 movie called Subterrain and a 2008 movie called The Escapist. After Planet of the Apes, Wyatt went on to make The Gambler in 2014 with Mark Wahlberg and Captive State in 2019 with John Goodman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ComingSoon is excited to debut the official Desert Warrior poster for the Anthony Mackie action movie. This comes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[89743,64,63,241574,134,6139,344,241575],"class_list":{"0":"post-583332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anthony-mackie","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-desert-warrior","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-movie-news","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-rupert-wyatt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}