Keira Knightley Plays a Badass Action Hero in ‘Black Doves’ Trailer

Keira Knightley shows off her fighting skills as an action hero in the official trailer for Netflix thriller Black Doves that dropped on Wednesday. The series releases on Dec. 5.

A different turn from the period dramas (Atonement and Pride and Prejudice) that established her film career, spy series Black Doves features a badass Knightely firing guns and throwing punches as Helen Webb, a British agent whose cover is threatened when her secret lover is killed and she goes looking for revenge amid escalating gunfights.

“If you try to stop me, I will kill you myself,” she says at one point in the trailer. Webb has been passing on her politician husband’s secrets to a shadowy group, the Black Doves, and her spymaster (Sarah Lancashire) calls in an old friend (Ben Whishaw) to help investigate who assassinated her lover. That leads them into a vast, interconnected conspiracy linking the murky London underworld to a looming geopolitical crisis.

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The Netflix thriller is set during Christmas in London, and ultimately has Webb and Young coming to terms with moral choices they made over the years as their pasts catch up with them. Joe Barton (Giri/Haji, The Lazarus Project) created, wrote and executive produces Black Doves.

The first season cast includes Luther Ford, Tracey Ullman, Kathryn Hunter and Omari Douglas. The Sister and Noisy Bear series is executive produced by Jane Featherstone, Chris Fry and Knightley, with Harry Munday producing.

The series is directed by Alex Gabassi (The Crown) and Lisa Gunning (The Power). The latest trailer features new music from British singer Raye, who has recorded a cover of Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” to be featured throughout the first season.

Netflix, meanwhile, has already ordered a second season of the spy thriller.