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Netflix’s massive Tudum 2023 showcase brought us plenty of treats, and it may have saved the best until last: The first trailer for Gal Gadot’s new action film Heart of Stone is out, and it’s a cracker.
Where many of the trailers unveiled last night were super-short teasers, and Heart of Stone previously only received one teaser trailer, this new trailer is much more substantial and gives you a really good idea of what the movie is going to be like. .
As someone who likes my action films to be brawny as well as brawny, I am quite excited about this one.
What is Heart of Stone about?
Heart of Stone tells the story of Agent Rachel Stone, a highly trained operative from a shadowy peacekeeping agency, who embarks on a dangerous mission to protect the incredibly valuable and dangerous intelligence asset “Heart”. As you can see from the trailer it hits all the blockbuster action movie beats and has some huge set-pieces.
The film marks the first in a new franchise along similar lines to the Mission: Impossible movies, and is written by Greg Rucka (The Old Guard, Lazarus) and Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures, Pineapple Express). According to Gadot the film is “extremely epic” and a “super grounded, raw, action thriller” that is realistic “so people can feel the pain”.
In a previous first look trailer, Gadot also said that “Rachel Stone lives off adrenaline. She’s addicted to it”, which immediately makes me think of the wonderfully silly, Jason Statham-starring Crank. Heart of Stone won’t be that stupid, but I’m really looking forward to seeing how this mix of secretive, lonely detective and stubborn adrenaline junkie works out on screen.
This isn’t Netflix’s first attempt at setting up a new Jason Bourne/James Bond franchise — the Luthor movie is a pretty clumsy attempt to do so — but it looks the most interesting I’ve seen so far.
If you’re as excited by the trailer as I am, you don’t have much longer to wait for the movie to start streaming: Heart of Stone will be released on August 11, 2023.
