Is The Old Guard true?

Andromache From Netflix's The Old Guard Is Based on Wild Stories From Ancient Myth. But just how old is Charlize Theron's immortal warrior, anyway? In Netflix's The Old Guard, Charlize Theron plays Andy, a millennia-old warrior who leads a small band of immortal soldiers as they fight evil throughout the centuries.
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Why is Andy no longer immortal in The Old Guard?

In the first movie, she'd grown bone wearily tired of living. Immortality had taken its toll, and she wished it was possible for her to die. Now, however, Theron says Andy will struggle with her mortality. As we saw in The Old Guard, it made her a liability and hindered her ability to lead.
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How old is the oldest immortal in The Old Guard?

1500 years Old (In The Comics)
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Is Andromache still immortal?

After her mother's death, she was honed into the warrior she is today until one such elder became jealous of her and sent her off to battle. This resulted in Andy's first death, after which she came back to life again and found she was immortal.
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Who is Andy supposed to be in The Old Guard?

In the film version of The Old Guard, we're told that Andy's full name and title are “Andromache the Scythian.” She is so old that she's close to actual death and was once worshipped as a god.
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The Old Guard: Biggest Unanswered Questions From The Netflix Movie



How did Quynh escape?

Now, it's a mystery as to how she escaped from the iron maiden in the water. Over time, perhaps, the metal may have corroded to the point where Quynh was able to break free. Or someone retrieved the tomb and opened it while exploring the sea or finding the device ashore, allowing Quynh to come back to life for good.
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Are Andy and Quynh lovers?

In the recently released sequel series, The Old Guard: Force Multiplied, the relationship of Quynh (called Noriko in the book) and Andy is revealed to have been a passionate love affair, similar to what Joe and Nicky experience in the present.
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Are they making a old guard 2?

The Old Guard Chapter 2: Force Multiplied is finally moving forward at Netflix. Here's what we know. It's coming up on two years since The Old Guard premiered on Netflix. Filming has finally now began on the long-awaited sequel and we've got new casting news.
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Did Andy regain her immortality?

After Andy gets cut with a knife and is unable to heal herself, she realizes she's become mortal. Later in the movie, she speculates that she lost her immortality when Nile, the group's new member, became immortal. But in the comic (up to #4 of "Force Multiplied), Andy is still immortal.
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Is Quynh evil in The Old Guard?

If the comics are anything to go by, it's the latter. In the sequel series The Old Guard: Force Multiplied, the Quynh character (who is called Noriko in the comics) is the main villain, and Booker is her often unwilling accomplice.
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Is Andromache of Scythia real?

Our Andy's full name is Andromache of Scythia. The Scythians were an ancient people from Siberia—and archaeologists believe that the group, which featured women warriors, may have been the inspiration for the Amazons.
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How long was Quynh drowning?

She was imprisoned in an iron maiden and thrown into the sea. Because she's immortal, she's been endlessly drowning for over 500 years. But by the movie's end, Quynh has somehow managed to escape her underwater prison and surprises Booker in Paris, where he's currently spending his time while exiled from the team.
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Who was the lady at the end of The Old Guard?

This woman, as you may remember from earlier in the film, is Quynh (Da 5 Bloods and Star Wars: The Last Jedi star Veronica Van Ngo)—one of the original two immortals. It was clarified in a flashback scene earlier that she was the second oldest of all of them, and that she was a friend and inseparable with Andy.
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Is Quynh still alive?

Is Quynh alive? While Quynh in The Old Guard doesn't appear throughout the film, her being alive is proven in the film's final moments. In the end, Booker is exiled from the immortal warrior's group. Months into the future he is shown living in Paris.
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How old is Andy in The Old Guard movie?

Andy is a 6,000-year-old immortal warrior and a member of an ancient group of immortals.
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Why did Andy lose immortality?

This was in the original comic book too, but the big change Rucka made in the movie was to have Andy lose her immortality. Andy realises that she's lost her immortality when a stab wound from an earlier fight doesn't heal.
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Is The Old Guard a book series?

Released as a Netflix original, the film is based on Greg Rucka's comic book series of the same name.
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Where was The Old Guard filmed?

Filming for the sequel from the 2020 Netflix hit, The Old Guard, has begun filming on location in the gorgeous city of Rome. The actress recently uploaded an Instagram post to share a small glimpse of the set as the cast and crew prepared to begin shooting the Netflix sequel.
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What is The Old Guard based on?

“The Old Guard,” which debuted July 10 on Netflix, is based on the Image Comics series of the same name from veteran writer Greg Rucka and Argentine artist Leandro Fernández. It's the tale of a woman-led team of immortal warriors, centuries old, who have fought in every type of battle time has ever seen.
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What should I watch if I liked The Old Guard?

10 Movies To Watch If You Liked Netflix's The Old Guard
  1. 1 Extraction (2020)
  2. 2 Close (2019) ...
  3. 3 6 Underground (2019) ...
  4. 4 Salt (2010) ...
  5. 5 The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) ...
  6. 6 Red Sparrow (2018) ...
  7. 7 John Wick 3: Parabellum (2019) ...
  8. 8 Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) ...
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How is Quynh alive Old Guard?

Plot. At the end of The Old Guard, Booker drunkenly stumbles into his apartment after Andy, Nicky, Joe, and Nile sentence him to 100 years of exile from the group. He finds a woman in his apartment drinking a glass of water, revealing Quỳnh to be alive.
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How are The Old Guard immortal?

They discover their immortality by killing each other, and continue killing each other each time they revive. They always wake up together, ultimately deciding to keep that going permanently without the murder foreplay.
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Is The Old Guard related to Hancock?

" The Old Guard, based on the Image Comics miniseries of the same title, ultimately has very little else in common with Hancock. Still, the 2008 movie has remained popular with some fans in the years which have since followed, and Theron is more than willing to jump back into that world with Smith.
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Who was in the last scene of The Old Guard?

The final scene of The Old Guard reveals that Quynh (Van Veronica Ngo), Andromache's old immortal flame, is still alive and free of her horrifying, underwater imprisonment. During the 17th century, Andy and Quynh were captured and tried as witches in England.
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Who killed Andromache?

Brothers of Andromache in the 'Iliad'

Menelaus killed him. In Book 6 of the "Iliad," Andromache is depicted as saying that her father and his seven sons were killed by Achilles in Cilician Thebe during the Trojan War.
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