First Trailer For Drone Thriller EYE IN THE SKY
Here's the first trailer for Eye in the Sky, a new thriller about drone warfare that hails from Ender's Game and X-Men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin Hood. Hood hasn't really captured my attention as a director (I admittedly haven't seen all of his films), but at least he has a great cast in this movie, including Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, and Alan Rickman. It looks like Iain Glen (Game of Thrones' Ser Jorah) and Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) also make appearances here, too. This is the second major movie in recent memory to question the morality of drone strikes, following Ethan Hawke's Good Kill.
Eye in the Sky arrives in select theaters on March 11th, 2016.
EYE IN THE SKY stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from "capture" to "kill." But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare. Also starring Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Jeremy Northam, Iain Glen and Phoebe Fox, the film is directed by Gavin Hood (TSOTSI) and written by Guy Hibbert ("Prime Suspect"). Producers are Ged Doherty, Colin Firth and David Lancaster.