The Old Guard (2020) on Netflix
Andy, Booker, Joe, and Nicky are immortal mercenaries whose wounds heal. A rescue job in South Sudan is a trap. In Afghanistan, Marine Nile Freeman survives a slit throat.
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Plot summary
Four mercenaries who heal from any wound take a job in South Sudan to rescue kidnapped girls, breaking a rule against working for the same employer twice. The job is a trap, and their client films them being killed. In Afghanistan, U.S. Marine Nile Freeman has her throat slit and recovers. Her dreams reach the other immortals, who learn she exists. Andy finds her before the military can move her for tests and brings her to a house in France.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Old Guard (2020)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Gina Prince-Bythewood became the first black woman to direct a big-budget comic book film, making it on a budget of about $70 million.
- Sandwich in Kent doubled for the French town of Goussainville, and the town's Discovery Park served as Merrick Pharmaceutical headquarters.
- After Veronica Ngo was cast, she told the filmmakers she was Vietnamese, not Japanese, and her comic-book character Noriko became the Vietnamese Quynh.
SPOILER
Quynh's death was changed from the comic, where she is washed overboard in a storm; in the film she is deliberately drowned, partly a logistical change to save money.
