--- title: Bright: Trailer Released for Will Smith Orc Cop Movie description: Netflix released a trailer for the film at Comic Con canonical: https://time.com/4866439/will-smith-bright-orcs-elves-netflix-david-ayer/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-21T00:09:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:38:52.814Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Will Smith Is a Cop in a World of Orcs and Elves in the 'Bright' Trailer og:description: Netflix released a trailer for the film at Comic Con og:url: https://time.com/4866439/will-smith-bright-orcs-elves-netflix-david-ayer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b724a584ab0d9f0/6988d678fb4eacfd58892fe0/bright_unit_20874_r.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: DSCF9282-Edit-2.tif og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Will Smith Is a Cop in a World of Orcs and Elves in the 'Bright' Trailer twitter:description: Netflix released a trailer for the film at Comic Con twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b724a584ab0d9f0/6988d678fb4eacfd58892fe0/bright_unit_20874_r.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Will Smith Is a Cop in a World of Orcs and Elves in the _Bright_ Trailer  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jul 21, 2017 12:09 AM UTC  Will Smith in Netflix's Bright Will Smith in Netflix's BrightScott Garfield—Netflix  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Jul 21, 2017 12:09 AM UTC Netflix is ready to compete with major studios. The streaming service has recruited an increasingly impressive list of A-listers to star in their films. Their latest gambit: Making the sort of movie that audiences traditionally would watch on a big screen. Enter Will Smith’s _Bright_. The film, directed by _Suicide Squad_ _‘_s David Ayer, is a sort of crime-fantasy mashup. Smith stars as a cop partnered with the first orc policeman (Joel Edgerton), who faces racism because he is an orc. Netflix dropped a full trailer for the movie at San Diego Comic Con on Thursday, and it combines realism with fantasy: “Fairy lives don’t matter today,” Smith says at one point while trying to shoo a fairy from his bird feeder. Police cars, bullets and uniforms from our world clash with flaming corpses, swords and a very powerful wand. At the panel, Smith, Ayer and the cast explained a bit about the world. A Bright, it seems is someone who uses magic, a wand like a nuclear weapon that grants wishes. All this magic has turned the world topsy-turvy. “It’s about a really f—d up L.A.,” Ayer said at the Comic Con panel. Smith said the movie gets political, at least metaphorically. “It was really great to be an African-American police officer who found someone to be racist against,” he said. 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