Gripping New Trailer For the WWI Film 1917 - "If You Fail, It Will Be a Massacre"
Universal Pictures has released a sensational and gripping new trailer for director Sam Mendes’s upcoming World War I film 1917. This looks like it’s going to be an incredibly exciting cinematic experience. I love movies like this and 1917 seems to have the makings of something special.
The movie was filmed in a way to make it look like the whole story was told in one continuous shot. There was a featurette released for the film recently that focused on that aspect of the film. If you haven’t watched that you, you need to check it out here. It’s pretty impressive to see what they’ve been able to accomplish and pull off.
Mendes is the same filmmaker that previously brought us Skyfall, Spectre, American Beauty, and Road to Perdition. He also gathered together a great cast that includes Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Madden, George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, and Andrew Scott.
Here is the synopsis for the film:
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones’ Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake’s own brother among them.
1917 is set to get a limited release on December 25th, 2019 and then it will go wide on January 10th, 2020.