{"id":563626,"date":"2026-07-28T14:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563626\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:18:13","slug":"children-of-blood-and-bone-trailer-african-fantasy-novel-comes-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/563626\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of Blood and Bone Trailer: African Fantasy Novel Comes to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tParamount has released the trailer for \u201cChildren of Blood and Bone,\u201d which hits theaters Jan. 15, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIn the epic fantasy world of Or\u00efsha, a young woman goes on a quest to reclaim the magic that was violently stolen from her people,\u201d the logline reads. \u201cShe and her brother ally with the daughter and son of the king to fight back against his brutal rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film is based on author Tomi Adeyemi\u2019s 2018 novel of the same name, set in a fictional African kingdom full of magic. The trailer introduces Thuso Mbedu as Zelie, a woman with the power to command undead spirits. Her homeland, the kingdom of Orisha, is divided into clans with different magical abilities.\u00a0Under King Saran\u2019s (Chiwetel Ejiofor) reign of terror, magic is suppressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe star-studded film features Damson Idris as Prince Inan, Amandla Stenberg as Princess Amari, Tosin Cole as Zelie\u2019s brother Tzain and Regina King as Queen Nehanda. Lashana Lynch, Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo and Viola Davis also join the supporting cast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tGina Prince-Bythewood directed \u201cChildren of Blood and Bone.\u201d Mbedu, Davis and Lynch also starred in her last project, 2022\u2019s \u201cThe Woman King.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-children-of-blood-and-bone\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-children-of-blood-and-bone\" data-tag=\"the-children-of-blood-and-bone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Children of Blood and Bone<\/a>\u201d debuted at No. 1 on the NY Times bestseller list. Adeyemi continued the series with \u201cThe Children of Virtue and Vengeance\u201d in 2019 and concluded the trilogy with \u201cThe Children of Anguish and Anarchy\u201d in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film was shot in various locations across the African continent. Prince-Bythewood wanted to give the actors a real-life backdrop to adapt the novel into a grounded film, even with magical elements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the trailer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount has released the trailer for \u201cChildren of Blood and Bone,\u201d which hits theaters Jan. 15, 2027. \u201cIn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,255343,85,46,187945],"class_list":["post-563626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gina-prince-blythewood","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-the-children-of-blood-and-bone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}