New Netflix movie The Sea Beast, starring Karl Urban, Jared Harris and Zaris-Angel Hator, sees a girl overcome brainwashing and propaganda

Netflix’s new animation is a tale of giant sea monsters and the propaganda that surrounds them, told by the Oscar-winning director of Disney’s Big Hero 6

The movie tackles issues of brainwashing, one-sided narratives and the importance of ‘who gets to say what the truth is in our history’

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Netflix’s new animated movie The Sea Beast, starring Zaris-Angel Hator as Maisie Brumble and Karl Urban as Jacob Holland, tackles issues of propaganda in history, and one-sided narratives. Photo: Netflix

Published: 4:30pm, 13 Jul 2022Updated: 4:32pm, 13 Jul 2022

Maisie Bramble is introduced early in The Sea Beast as a bit of a rule-breaker.

Obsessed with the seafaring hunters who traverse oceans tracking and killing giant sea monsters, Maisie (voiced by Zaris-Angel Hator) is first shown regaling her fellow orphans with stories about these warriors’ heroics by candlelight before the children are caught breaking curfew. It’s also hinted that she routinely breaks out of the children’s home.

Maisie “is just a force of nature”, says The Sea Beast director Chris Williams. She’s “a character that is absolutely determined to go after what she wants. And if she sees an obstacle, she’ll go through it, around it, under it, but she will achieve what she’s after.”

A sweeping animated action adventure, The Sea Beast, now streaming on Netflix, is set in a world where terrifying sea monsters terrorising ships and coastal towns have led to the rise of maritime hunters that protect the defenceless populace.

Maisie’s goal is to join the crew of a hunting ship to “live a great life” fighting these giant sea beasts, much like her parents did before they died.