Artemis Fowl is heading to Disney+ rather than the cinema, and it's arriving very soon indeed.
Ahead of its release next month, the House of Mouse has dropped a new trailer teasing what we can expect from the big small-screen adaptation of Eoin Colfer's fantasy novels, showing off Artemis' cool technology, his secret lair and his colourful teammates (yes, that is Josh Gad).
It's an alright-enough-looking trailer, but fans who complained the previous one downplayed the 'criminal mastermind' aspects probably won't have changed their minds.
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It's also severely lacking in Dame Judi Dench, who has been cast by director Sir Kenneth Branagh as the leather jacket-wearing Commander Root and will undoubtedly be the best part of the whole film.
Branagh previously said that Dench was perfect for the role, which was written as a man in the books, explaining: "When we started to rehearse, she leaned forward, and her shoulders stooped and her voice dropped, and then suddenly this gravelly, Churchillian, curmudgeonly figure started to emerge.
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"I saw all of those actors suddenly, naturally go to attention when they saw Judi, who had this swagger and this cool, who had this great leather coat, who carried the authority quite so effortlessly."
Disney's new CEO Bob Chapek explained why the film was going straight to streaming rather than having its cinematic release delayed like some of its other movies, insisting it was down to "demographics".
Artemis Fowl will be available to watch on Disney+ from June 12, 2020.
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