Netflix has released the long-awaited second trailer for Bright, the latest big-budget effort from Suicide Squad director David Ayer which carries a hefty $90 million price tag. The film was written by Chronicle scribe Max Landis and stars Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace, Lucy Fry, and Ike Barinholtz.
Bright is set in what is described as an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves, and fairies have been co-existing since the beginning of time. The film follows two cops from very different backgrounds, Ward (Smith), and Jakoby (Edgerton), as they embark on a routine patrol night and encounter a darkness that will ultimately alter the future and their world as they know it.
The newest trailer for Bright comes on the heels of Netflix’s unprecedented announcement that they plan on releasing around 80 original films in 2018 as opposed to the 50 that they will have released by the end of the current year. To put this into perspective, there were just 93 total wide releases in 2016, so we can only imagine what kind of tricks Netflix has tucked up their sleeve.
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos believes that, with the release of Bright, “people will start seeing the potential for this original movie initiative, that it could be done on the enormous scale we have on the television side.” One release you can expect from Netflix next year is Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, which is being produced for more than $100 million.
Bright will premiere on Netflix on December 22, 2017.