Netflix Tudum highlights: ‘The Archies’ character reveals, ‘Heart of Stone’ trailer

New publicity material about Zoya Akhtar’s upcoming film The Archies, a full-length trailer for Heart of Stone, whose cast includes Alia Bhatt, and details on upcoming shows were among the highlights of Netflix’s annual fan event Tudum in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Archies comics characters played by the young actors was revealed: Agastya Nanda (Archie Andrews), Suhana Khan (Veronica Lodge), Khushi Kapoor (Betty Cooper), Vedang Raina (Reggie Mantle), Mihir Ahuja (Jughead Jones), Dot (Ethel Muggs) and Yuvraj Menda (Dilton Doiley). The film is set among the Anglo-Indian community in the 1960s in the fictional Riverdale hill town.

Heart of Stone, Tom Harper’s spy thriller led by Gal Gadot, will be premiered on Netflix on August 11 in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Alia Bhatt plays a hacker named Keya Dhawan in the movie. The cast includes Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey), Sophie Okonedo, Matthias Schweighofer, Jing Lusi and Paul Ready.

The official synopsis: “Rachel Stone (Gal Gadot) appears to be an inexperienced tech, on an elite MI6 unit headed up by lead agent Parker (Jamie Dornan). What her MI6 team doesn’t know is that Stone actually works for the Charter – a covert peacekeeping organization, secret even from other spies, which uses cutting-edge technology to neutralize global threats.” Read more