simon barry

The journey taken into live-action for Ben Dunn’s graphic novel, Warrior Nun, was a long and winding one. Where its film prospects once saw changing hands over to different creatives has since landed a first season for Netflix’s latest series, about a wayward woman who finds herself with a new lease on life after waking up in a morgue. Ava (Alba Baptiste), once a quadriplegic after suffering a car accident that killed her mother, is suddenly able to walk, albeit in the midst of an epic battle between forces unbeknownst to her. She’s gifted with the ability to see wraith demons, nearly invulnerable to pain and can heal fast, and is also able to phase through walls. What she doesn’t know is why, nor that what’s imbued her with these gifts is presumably an angel’s Halo, embedded hurriedly in her back while she was dead. Along the way, she meets […]

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