The Old Guard
The Old Guardfeatures a grouping of immortal warriors , most of whom have been alive for centuries but how older are they exactly ? The marketing material and flick itself offer several clues to the immortals ' ages . Charlize Theron ’s Andy is the oldest , but most of her fellow traveler have had very long life as well .
Directed by Gina Prince - Bythewood andbased on the comic book seriesThe Old Guard , by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández , the Netflix pic follows a squad of warriors who have lived in the dark for hundred , taking part in conflicts on whichever side they feel is right . The Old Guardis lay out in the modern - day , where a new immortal — soldier Nile Freeman ( Kiki Layne ) — joins the group after miraculously healing from having her throat cut . She is chop-chop pioneer into the low mathematical group of warriors and learns how they have influenced history . While she ’s still learn about her fresh family , they do under threat from a greedy pharmaceutical administrator called Steven Merrick ( Harry Melling ) , who hopes to discoverthe secret to their immortality , bottle it , and put a cost tag on it .
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Unfortunately for Merrick , he ’s not the first uncollectible guy that the Old Guard has go into during their very long lifetimes . Here ’s a crack-up of when each member of the group besides Andy was bear , and how old they are in the modern - solar day setting of the movie .
How Old Is Andy In The Old Guard?
While the movie form ofThe Old Guardkeeps Andy ’s age ambiguous , it is know that she is the old fellow member of the group . Her full name , Andromache of Scythia , refers to a Central Asian conglomerate that cease in the 2nd century atomic number 58 , making Andy at least 1800 years old but likely former . A potentialTheOld Guardsequel could expand the mythologyby research this , however the comic propose that Andy is even older than her name suggest .
Rucka and Fernandez ’s comics depict Andy as being wear circa 4500 BCE in the Western Steppe of Scythia . Andy developed immortality after being " killed " in battle , and led her tribe for hundreds of years . However , after centuries she left her position to seek judge and find other immortals . Andy even gives a exact years in the cartoon strip of 6732 , mean that she has been do humanity for over six millennium .
Quynh - Approx. 1500 years Old (In The Comics)
However , in the movie it ’s not specified precisely when or where Andy and Quynh met , except that Andy found Quynh when she was wander through the desert , and that she was the first other immortal that Andy ever met . Many have speculated thatAndy and Quynh will fight inThe Old Guard 2 . In the strip , Andy assemble Lykon ( Micheal Ward ) before she receive Noriko , and they fought together for two thousand old age . Lykon also appears briefly in a flashback inThe Old Guard , with Andy and Quynh both being present at the fourth dimension of his destruction . If Quynh has been aged up so as to have been born before Lykon , she could really be several thousand year old during the events of the picture show . Hopefully , audiences will learn more about her backstory — let in her age — inThe Old Guard 2 .
Yusuf Al-Kaysani a.k.a. Joe - 954 Years Old
According to his character poster , Joe ( Marwan Kenzari ) was born in 1066 , making him 954 years onetime at the timeThe Old Guardtakes shoes . in the first place call in Yusuf Al - Kaysani , Joe was a Muslim warrior during the First Crusade , who met the love of his life on the battlefield — and killed him . However , destiny chose them asthe next immortalsto join the Old Guard , and after repeatedly slaying each other they make that neither they nor the enemy soldier could be kill — at which full stop their enmity turned to erotic love .
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Nicoló de Genoa a.k.a. Nicky - 951 Years Old
Younger than Joe by only a few years ( which originate even less significant as the C pass ) , Nicky ( Luca Marinelli ) is 951 years old during the consequence ofThe Old Guard , based on a character poster that gives his year of nascency as 1069 . This means that he would have been in his late twenty — 30 at most — the first time he died . Like Joe and Andy , Nicky changed his name at some full stop from Nicoló of Genoa to the more mutual name of Nick Smith , in parliamentary procedure to help his namelessness . This menses of the Crusades has been a democratic setting for movies as well as television games likeAssassin ’s CreedandCrusader Kings . Hailing from the city of Genoa , in what would later become the unified commonwealth of Italy , Nicky fought in the First Crusade until he fall in dear with one of the opposition , and instead began fight down young battles alongside him . After square off their differences , Joe and Nicky both satisfy Andy and became part of the Old Guard alongside her and Quynh .
Sebastien le Livre a.k.a. Booker - 250 Years Old
The babe of the grouping ( at least , until Nile come along ) , Booker ( Matthias Schoenaerts ) is 250 class honest-to-goodness during the events ofThe Old Guard , with his quality poster scar his yr of giving birth as 1770 . His unreliable actions make it ill-defined whether he ’ll return for apotentialThe Old Guard2 . Born Sebastien le Livre ( his moniker come from his cognomen , which is French for " Book " ) , Booker was a soldier under Napoleon who defect during the campaign into Russia . He was beguile and hanged , but came back to life history still hanging from the snare , being 42 years old at the clip of this first death in 1812 . As he lived on without ageing , Booker experienced the harm of watching his son die and being helpless to halt them , even as they grew to detest him for not sharing his gift of immortality . Being a unseasoned immortal , the 100 - year penance that Booker is sentenced to at the end ofThe Old Guardwould still be a significant amount of time for him .
Nile Freeman - 26 Years Old
A pivotal part ofThe Old Guard ’s cast is Nile , who acts as a vantage point character . A firebrand Modern phallus of the Old Guard , Nile Freeman is 26 years when she die for the first prison term , get her pharynx cut while attempt to spare the living of a mankind she has just shoot . After she wake up in the hospital without a mark to show for her injury , she ’s shunned by her fellow soldiers and about to be air away for some plausibly very unpleasant examination when she ’s nobble by Andy . Nile has a military bequest to uphold , with her father having been killed in action , but also has a family that she ’s at first knifelike to render to . By the closing of the motion picture , however , she has determine to bind with Andy and the other immortals , having see the good that they ’ve carry off to do in the world .
There are plenty ofunanswered interrogative sentence fromThe erstwhile Guardthat could be addressed inThe Old Guard 2 , and the exact geezerhood of Andy and Quanh are among them . The sequel could also satisfy in the centuries of backstory that each of the immortals have , wee-wee their ages very authoritative for the franchise run forward .
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