From End of Watch to Suicide Squad, Director David Ayer’s worlds look set to collide in the new Netflix original film, Bright which is due to be released in December 2017 and saw its first trailer air in the US during last night’s Oscars ceremony.

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Looking at the trailer, Ayer, who reunites with his Suicide Squad star Will Smith, looks set to bring elements from the worlds of End of Watch and Suicide Squad to his latest project which see’s Smith as a human cop working alongside an Orc cop who is played by the exceptionally diverse Joel Edgerton (Loving, Black Mass, The Gift). Joining Smith and Edgerton on the cast are Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Lucy Fry who plays an Elf with a magical wand and needs the protection of these two hulking cops.

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Co-written by Max Landis and Ayer the film will also star Edgar Ramirez, Ike Barinholtz, Enrique Murciano, Jay Hernandez, Andrea Navedo, Veronica Ngo, Alex Meraz, Margaret Cho, Brad William Henke, Dawn Olivieri, and Kenneth Choi.

Although Suicide Squad didn’t meet with the best reception last year, bringing some of the beastly dark elements from his time on that doomed set might just make for a riveting watch of escapism.

BRIGHT comes exclusively to Netflix this December.

Bright Official Synopsis

Set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves and fairies have been coexisting since the beginning of time, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide SquadEnd of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds.  Ward, a human (Will Smith), and Jakoby, an orc (Joel Edgerton), embark on a routine night patrol that will alter the future of their world as they know it.  Battling both their own personal differences as well as an onslaught of enemies, they must work together to protect a young female elf and a thought-to-be-forgotten relic, which in the wrong hands could destroy everything.