Great Trailer for George Clooney's Sports Drama THE BOYS IN THE BOAT
MGM Studios has released a new trailer for George Clooney’s upcoming sports drama, The Boys in the Boat. While I don’t know much about rowing and I don’t really have any interest in it in general, I’m always up for an inspirational sports story about the underdogs succeeding! This one looks like it’s going to be a great movie!
The film is based on the NY Times bestselling non-fiction novel written by Daniel James Brown. The movie is about “the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. This inspirational true story follows a group of underdogs at the height of the Great Depression as they are thrust into the spotlight and take on elite rivals from around the world.”
Clooney explained, "The stakes were much higher for them… and it gave them an edge. That you can pull yourself up from nothing and succeed."
We don’t see a lot of sports movies like this being made these days anymore, so I’m happy to see that this is a story that Clooney pushed to get made. The movie stars Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner, with Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Peter Guinness, Alec Newman, Luke Slattery, Thomas Elms, Tom Varey, and Bruce Herbelin-Earle.
Clooney directed the film and MGM will debut The Boys in the Boat in theaters on December 25th, 2023.