Trailer For The Vietnam War Film DANGER CLOSE: THE BATTLE OF LONG TAN
Outnumbered. Outgunned. Never Out of Courage.
It seems like it’s been awhile since we’ve seen a movie set during the Vietnam war, but we’ve got one coming called Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan and it tells a pretty crazy story.
The film tells the harrowing true story of 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers who are forced to fight to survive against 2,500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers who are attacking them.
This is the kind of intense survival war story that I love to hear about and it looks like it going to make for a solid film. The movie my not have any big name actors in it, but it looks good and I’ll watch it! Here’s the synopsis:
Late afternoon August 18, 1966 South Vietnam – for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle-hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. With their ammunition running out, their casualties mounting and the enemy massing for a final assault, each man begins to search for the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour, decency and courage
The movie comes from director Kriv Stenders (Blacktown, Dark Frontier, Red Dog, Kill Me Three Times) and it stars Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey, Richard Roxburgh, Daniel Webber, Alexander England, Aaron Glenane, Nicholas Hamilton, Myles Pollard, Matt Doran, Stephen Peacocke, Aaron L. McGrath, Mojean Aria, Emmy Dougall, and Uli Latukefu.
There’s no US release date yet, but check out the trailer and hit us up with your thoughts!