Man On Fire Teaser Trailer: See Yahya Abdul-Mateen II In A New Series

John Creasy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) has eliminated the résumé. “US Army Special Forces, three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan,” a voice narrates in the teaser trailer for the brand new man on fire sequence (premieres April 30). “His history looks impressive, but his best days are far behind him.”

In the teaser and in the upcoming sequence, Creasy aims to prove that voice wrongpopping out of retirement to strike again after a devastating loss. Fortunately, he is performed by Abdul-Mateen (watchmen, ambulance), whose skills are by no means in doubt. “He can do everything,” author and showrunner Kyle Killen (Lone Star) tells Tudum. “That’s what John Creasy needs. He can be incredibly powerful, and still communicates a lot without saying anything. He’s obviously incredible at action, but he’s also very adept at just revealing those little places where he lets you in.”

The teaser offers us a glimpse at each side of that dichotomy. We see Creasy assembling a blindfolded gun, partaking in heated gunfights and fistfights, and setting off expenses in a jail cell block. But we additionally see him consoling Poe (Billie Boullet), the one witness to a tragic occasion that Creasy investigates all through the sequence.

A man sits beside a blindfolded woman in an office with plaques and a flag on the wall, papers and a phone on the desk; light from a window and lamp illuminate the room.

Beneath all of the explosive motion, Creasy’s journey in direction of new friendships and household is on the coronary heart of Man on Fire. “It’s that relationship between a man and the person he’s supposed to protect, and the way that really draws out the person he’s trying to hide,” Killen says. “In some ways, he’s very comfortable with the violence and the danger. Those are areas that he understands. It’s opening himself up to other people that makes him really vulnerable.”

Creasy should stability competing impulses: to take the struggle to the individuals who wronged Poe, and to guard her from going through a lethal destiny. “What she needs from him is exactly the thing he can’t give,” Killen says. “He can be a protector, but he’s really reticent to get close and be a friend.”

Two men are fighting in a dimly lit urban alley at night, with tense expressions and raised fists, surrounded by graffiti-covered walls and trees in the background.

For now, being a protector should do. “Let me just be very clear: You’re not gonna survive this,” Creasy narrates as he throws a haymaker punch on the finish of the teaser. Bad guys beware: This man on fireplace He does not care if his enemies get burned.

Also starring Alice Braga (City of God) and Scoot McNairy (True Detective), man on fire hits Netflix on April 30, 2026. Brace yourselves.