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Damsel is a 2024 American dark fantasy film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and written by Dan Mazeau. Millie Bobby Brown stars as Elodie, a young woman who accepts a marriage proposal only to realize that she is being used to repay a royal family's ancient debts and must now escape while surviving attacks from the dragon lurking in the chasm.
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is a 2024 fantasy film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and written Dan Mazeau. It is produced by PMCA Productions and Roth Kirschenbaum Films, being distributed by Netflix. The film stars Millie Bobby Brown and Angela Bassett.
was released on March 8, 2024 in the United States by Netflix.
The king of a village called Aurea gathers his soldiers to kill a dragon that has been attacking the village.
Centuries later, in a different village, Elodie, the daughter of a lord, is helping provide warmth and food to the people in their harsh and cold village. Lord Bayford receives a proposal of marriage from Queen Isabelle of Aurea for Elodie. While she’s hesitant, her father insists that the alliance will help their people, and so she agrees. Upon their arrival, their family is impressed by the grandeur of the palace. Elodie is escorted to her room, and from her balcony, she marvels at the view. She meets the Queen and Prince Henry the next day, and they are impressed by her grace and wit. Elodie and Henry go for a walk so they can get to know each other. She discovers that he shares her passion and desire for traveling. After an attempt to acquaint herself with the Queen gets rebuffed, Lady Bayford, stepmother of Elodie, gets a bad feeling about the wedding and the family. At night, she tells Elodie that this is a mistake and there’s still time to change her mind, but Elodie decides to go through with the wedding.
After the wedding, Elodie and Henry take a chariot to the mountains, where a group of people wearing gold masks await. The Queen tells the story of the dragon and how the King was given his freedom in exchange for three of his daughters. And so began a ritual of sacrificing women for peace. The Queen cuts both Elodie’s and Henry’s palms and they join hands, so his royal blood is on her. Henry then carries Elodie and throws her into the chasm under the bridge. Elodie cries out for help, awakening the dragon, who chases her into a cave and breathes fire into the cave, burning Elodie's leg in the process. The dragon seems to enjoy the chase and leaves her to tend to her wounds. After falling down a tunnel, Elodie discovers a part of the cave covered in glow worms. She collects them on her sleeve to use as a source of light. Nearby, she finds a lake, but the water is murky. She sees icicles above, which are feeding water into the lake, and holds her mouth open so water drips into it. The dragon comes back, making the ice melt, and blows fire at Elodie. She runs, escaping into a cave where the dragon cannot reach her.
In this cave, she sees the names of all the past princesses carved into the stone. As she sleeps, Elodie dreams about the women who also hid in this cave. One of them draws a map of the maze on the wall, while another, Victoria, tells her, “It is all a lie.” Elodie awakens and finds the slugs have cured her burn wound. Elodie follows the map, hoping to get out. She reaches an overhead tunnel covered in sharp crystals, where she finds Victoria’s crown. Using the crystals as ledges, she climbs up the tunnel to a landing where there is an opening, revealing that she is on the side of the mountain and cannot escape from there. The dragon catches up to her and says, "Three taken, three must be given." Elodie finds the remains of three dead young dragons. It is revealed that Queen lied to her. The King had come into the dragon’s lair unprovoked and killed her daughters, and that is why she demanded three of his daughters. Meanwhile, Elodie’s father hired locals to guide him to her so she can be rescued. He calls out to her, and she reaches him at the same time as the dragon. As she hides and watches, the dragon tells her father that Elodie is alive and watching and that she can smell her royal blood. This prompts her father to order Elodie to remain in hiding.
The dragon kills him and starts searching for Elodie. The guide distracts the dragon, so Elodie can say goodbye to her father, who tells her to escape using the ropes and that her stepmother and sister, Floria, are waiting for her at the port. She escapes with her hair, but the dragon leaves the mountain in search of her, forcing her to hide under some rocks. The Queen, angry by these events, seizes Floria instead, to sacrifice. In the morning, when Elodie reaches her stepmother, Lady Bayford tells her that they took Floria. So she sets out to rescue Floria, retracing her steps from her first time in the cave. She blows up some armor, creating a distraction so she can rescue Floria from the lair. However, the dragon catches up to her, and a fiery fight ensues. Just as Elodie is about to give up, she feels the spirits of the lost princesses with her and provokes the dragon to blow fire. The dragon does, but it bounces off the wall and burns herself. Elodie tells the dragon that they were both lied to. Elodie was told a story about how the dragon wreaked havoc upon the village, and the dragon fed innocent daughters disguised as royals. The dragon then tells her to end it, but Elodie gets the glow worms to cure the dragon's burns instead.
Back at the palace, Henry is being wed to the third and final princess for the sacrifice when Elodie makes an entrance. She convinces the princess to run away, angering the queen. The dragon then comes and sets the palace on fire as Elodie walks away from the palace. In the end, Elodie, Floria, and Lady Bayford set sail home with a bounty of supplies to keep their people sustained. The dragon flies back home with them.
•Millie Bobby Brown as Elodie, who thinks she is marrying Prince Henry, only to find out that she is being sacrificed to a dragon.
•Ray Winstone as Lord Bayford, Elodie and Floria's father.]
•Angela Bassett as Lady Bayford, Elodie's stepmother.
•Brooke Carter as Floria, Elodie's younger sister.
•Nick Robinson as Prince Henry, Elodie's betrothed prince.
•Robin Wright as Queen Isabelle, Prince Henry's mother.
Development
In March 2020, Discussing Film announced that Juan Carlos Fresnadillo was to direct the new fantasy film ‘Damsel’ for Netflix with Patrick Tatopoulos set to serve as production designer on the film. Dan Mazeau was set to write the screenplay with Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum set to produce the film through their production company Roth/Kirschenbaum Films. Netflix was also originally aiming to release the film in 2021. In November 2020, Millie Bobby Brown, under her PCMA banner, was announced as an executive producer on Damsel, alongside Mazeau, Zack Roth, Chris Castaldi and Sue Baden-Powell. Emily Wolfe is co-producer alonside Roth and Kirschenbaum. The film was also revealed to have a projected budget of $60-70 million set. Emily Ballou and Mark Bomback were credited for "additional literary material" off-screen.
Casting
In November 2020, Millie Bobby Brown joined the cast in the lead role. In April 2022, Angela Bassett, Robin Wright, Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson, Brooke Carter and Shohreh Aghdashloo joined the film's cast.
Filming
The film started shooting in February 2022 at Troubadour Meridian Water Studios in Enfield, London, with the cave scenes being shot there. Filming also took place in Tomar, a municipality in the Santarém district of Portugal, the Castle of Sortelha, Serra da Estrela, and at the Batalha Monastery. Filming lasted until July 1, 2022.
Damsel is a 2018 American Western black comedy film written and directed by David Zellner and Nathan Zellner. It stars Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2018 and was released on June 22, 2018, by Magnolia Pictures and Great Point Media.
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