Fantasy series starring Jessie Mei Li premieres April 23
Netflix dropped the teaser for its eagerly anticipated, upcoming “Shadow and Bone” TV adaptation Friday, revealing the “miracle” within lowly mapmaker Alina, the girl who might be the key to helping Ben Barnes’ General Kirigan and his army defeat their “Shadow Fold” enemy. Watch the trailer for the show, which is based on Leigh Bardugo’s worldwide bestselling Grishaverse novels, via the video above. Per Netflix, “Shadow and Bone” finds us in a war-torn world where lowly soldier and orphan Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free. With the monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems.
