Cursed‘s First Trailer Is a Waterlogged Arthurian Bloodbath

Even thoughreimaginings of Arthurian legendsalmost always centrally concenter on a lake of some variety , Netflix ’s young trailer for its adaptation ofFrank Miller and Tom Wheeler’sCurseddemonstrates that these stories are still very much seenas an interminable well for action - pack storiesabout war , magic , and gyration .

Cursed ’s first laggard says more about the series ’ story through optics rather than by way of Nimue ’s ( Katherine Langford ) melodramatic representative over about how the King Uther ’s Red Paladins slaughtered her the great unwashed in their vicious quest to steal the source of their druid - similar wizard powers . At the center of the epic conflict between the Paladins and the druids suffer Excalibur , the sword - shaped MacGuffin that Nimue and her newfound ally Arthur ( Devon Terrell ) are desperate to deliver to the wizard Merlin ( Gustaf Skarsgård ) , in hopes that doing so will take to the remainder of the combat .

Nimue knows that beyond Excalibur ’s own witching properties ( it glows a bit whenever someone worthy of it pick it up to handle in battle ) , the heavy function it ’s to play in the fate of the world is ultimately to key the one true monarch capable of show in a new age of balance . But of row , because this is n’t just another rehashing of Arthur ’s journey to the throne , it ’s Nimue , and not him that Excalibur seems to be intent on choose , think of that her life ’s potential in more danger than any myth ever could have prepare her for .

Nimue wielding Excalibur.