{"id":132884,"date":"2024-03-12T16:57:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=132884"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:57:53","slug":"the-first-omen-chilling-new-trailer-for-horror-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/cinema\/the-first-omen-chilling-new-trailer-for-horror-prequel\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Omen: Chilling new trailer for horror prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This child is his way.&#8221; Boy do we like an <em><strong>Omen<\/strong><\/em> film here at SciFiNow, so we&#8217;re particularly excited to see a few <em><strong>Omen<\/strong><\/em> Easter Eggs (well, it is almost Easter after all!) in the lastest trailer for <em><strong>The First Omen<\/strong><\/em>, the prequel to the classic horror franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Spot them for yourselves here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5HLzhql8ArE?si=pTYFLzXkQRQlJDkk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The First Omen<\/strong><\/em> follows a young American woman who is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church. However, she soon encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Arkasha Stevenson (in her feature debut, though she has directed episodes of\u00a0<em><strong>Legion<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><strong>Channel Zero<\/strong><\/em>), the movie is based on characters created by David Seltzer (<em><strong>The Omen<\/strong><\/em>), with a story by Ben Jacoby (<em><strong>Bleed<\/strong><\/em>) and a screenplay by Tim Smith &amp; Arkasha Stevenson and Keith Thomas (<em><strong>Firestarter<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>It stars Nell Tiger Free (<em><strong>Servant<\/strong><\/em>), Tawkeef Barhom (<em><strong>Mary Magdalene<\/strong><\/em>), Sonia Braga (<em><strong>Kiss of the Spider Woman<\/strong><\/em>), Ralph Ineson (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/cinema\/the-northman-review-kill-claes-bang-and-the-hurt-is-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Northman<\/strong><\/em><\/a>), and Bill Nighy (<em><strong>Living<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The movie also has some impressive producers behind it, including David S. Goyer (<em><strong>Foundation<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Hellraiser<\/strong><\/em>) and Keith Levine (<em><strong>The Night House<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The First Omen will be released in cinemas on 5 April.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch more trailers and videos at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzZiC_sZdNZsdP4Rskmoudg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SciFiNow<\/a>\u00a0YouTube channel.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the latest trailer and check out the creepy brand new UK poster for The First Omen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":132885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Entertainment","MSN_Publish_Option":true,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[7851],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/The-First-Omen-Poster.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132886,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132884\/revisions\/132886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}