{"id":789438,"date":"2026-07-28T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789438\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:25:08","slug":"children-of-blood-and-bone-movie-trailer-reveals-all-star-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/789438\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Movie Trailer Reveals All-Star Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe first trailer for the much-anticipated big screen adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi<\/a>\u2018s bestselling novel Children of Blood and Bone<\/a> has been revealed, and in it we get a proper look at the all-star cast in the Africa-set fantasy drama. <\/p>\n

\n\tGina Prince-Bythewood<\/a>\u2018s film stars a veritable Who\u2019s Who of Black British and American actors including Idris Elba<\/a>, Cynthia Erivo<\/a>, Chiwetel Ejiofor<\/a>, Regina King<\/a>, Damson Idris<\/a>, Lashana Lynch<\/a>, Amandla Stenberg<\/a>, Tosin Cole<\/a>, Viola Davis<\/a> and the lead of the film, South African actress Thuso Mbedu<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tChildren of Blood and Bone is based on Nigerian-American writer Adeyemi\u2019s 2018 debut novel, and the first book in her Legacy of Or\u00efsha trilogy, which became a The New York Times bestseller. Set in an alternate history pre-colonial West Africa, the book follows the story of Z\u00e9lie Adebola (Mbedu) as she attempts to restore magic to the kingdom of Or\u00efsha, following brutal oppresion by the cruel and ruthless King Saran (Ejiofor). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the clip, set to excerpts of Beyonce\u2019s 2022 song \u201cEnergy,\u201d we see Mbedu\u2019s Z\u00e9lie come-of-age to bring magic back to Or\u00efsha, as she evades Saran\u2019s forces. We also see lavish costumes, gorgeous location visuals and fights scenes very reminiscent of Ryan Coogler\u2019s Black Panther films and Prince-Bythewood\u2019s own critically-acclaimed 2022 historical action film The Woman King, which also starred Mbedu, Davis and Lynch. <\/p>\n

\n\tAdeyemi co-wrote the screenplay with Prince-Bythewood but has recently distanced herself from the film adaptation.<\/a> Earlier this month, Adeyemi took to social media to address why she wasn\u2019t promoting the film version, revealing that she had distanced herself from the adaptation. In a TikTok video, Adeyemi included a screenshot of her message to unidentified recipients that read, \u201cThere is a reason I will not post anything about the adaptation of my work. That\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe video also included a screenshot of an apparent message that she sent to Stenberg, who plays Princess Amari in the movie. Adeyemi\u2019s message read, \u201cDo not ever use my name in an interview or video again. Do not text me. Do not call me.\u201d The image suggested that Adeyemi had blocked the actress. <\/p>\n

\n\tChildren of Blood and Bone hits theaters on Jan. 15, 2027. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for the much-anticipated big screen adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi\u2018s bestselling novel Children of Blood and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[257259,257260,210745,106479,138707,88,103041,81549,248526,206,42861,70693,257261,319777,335681,77986],"class_list":["post-789438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amandla-stenberg","tag-children-of-blood-and-bone","tag-chiwetel-ejiofor","tag-cynthia-erivo","tag-damson-idris","tag-entertainment","tag-gina-prince-bythewood","tag-idris-elba","tag-lashana-lynch","tag-movies","tag-paramount-pictures","tag-regina-king","tag-thuso-mbedu","tag-tomi-adeyemi","tag-tosin-cole","tag-viola-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}