Evil Is Coming in the Trailer for Viola Davis' New Historical Epic 'The Woman King' - Watch Here

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“The Woman King,” a historical epic starring Viola Davis, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The TriStar Pictures release centers on the Agojie, an all-female military regiment tasked with protecting the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s.

The Gina Prince-Bythewood directed TriStar Pictures and eOne title, The Woman King, will be making its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Star Wars, James Bond and The Suicide Squad actors have united for a new film, inspired by true events in Black history. The Woman King tells the story of an all-female unit of warriors called the Agojie, who were the protectors of the African Kingdom of Dahomey back in the 1800s. In the film, a new generation of warriors are led by General Nanisca as they train to fight against a force that want to destroy their very way of life itself: an invasion of Europeans looking to expand their territory overseas and colonise the world.

The Woman King. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Woman King stars Davis as Nanisca, an African commander who led the Agojie, a real-life army of all-female warriors. In an with V.F., Davis shared that she trained four hours a day, five days a week to physically prepare for the part. “Weight training, sprinting, martial arts, and weaponry training for the machete,” she said.

Women take up the fight in Viola Davis’s new historical epic.

first glimpse of in April, Davis plays Nanisca, the leader of an all-female militia of warriors tasked with protecting the Kingdom of Dahomey. As an ominous voiceover explains, that militia is the kingdom’s weapon “that they are not prepared for.”We don’t quite know who “they” are yet though.

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Viola Davis like you’ve never seen her before. The 56-year-old actress transforms into General Nanisca, the leader of an all-female group of African warriors known as the Agojie, in the first trailer for the upcoming epic new film . Co-written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, tells the story of Nanisca and the incredible fighters who protected the Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s as the general trains the next generation of recruits for battle against colonists who threaten to destroy their way of life. “ will tell one of history’s greatest forgotten stories from the real world in which we live, where an army of African warrior women staved off slavery, colonialism and inter-tribal warfare to unify a nation,” producer Cathy Schulman said of the project when it was first revealed.

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