Sam Mendes' World War I drama 1917 releases explosive final trailer
Sam Mendes’ World War I drama 1917 releases explosive final trailer… as motion picture continues to generate award season buzz
- Final preview of the film 1917 is released before its Christmas Day theatrical opening in limited theaters
- Film features Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Benedict Cumberbatch and Colin Firth
- Story follows a pair of young soldiers entrusted on crucial mission to alert allies to attack
A new trailer for writer-director Sam Mendes’ World War I drama 1917 was released Wednesday, giving moviegoers a final preview of the film before its Christmas Day arrival in limited theaters.
The film features an ensemble cast including Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden and Mark Strong.
It tells the story of a pair of English soldiers, Lance Corporals Blake and Schofield (played by Chapman and MacKay, respectively).
The latest: A new trailer for writer-director Sam Mendes’ World War I drama 1917 was released Wednesday, giving moviegoers a final preview of the film before its Christmas Day arrival in theaters. It tells the story of a pair of English soldiers, Lance Corporals Blake and Schofield played by Dean-Charles Chapman (L) and George MacKay, respectively
The young men are tasked with a crucial mission of making their way through dangerous areas of battle to inform a company of 1,600 soldiers – including Blake’s brother – that a deadly trap awaits at the hands of the German military.
‘Your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrow morning’s attack – if you fail, it will be a massacre,’ Firth’s character General Erinmore tells the men upon assigning the crucial mission.
Blake and Schofield are seen making their way through enemy areas, sometimes being fired on, as the violence of the first World War is boldly captured by Mendes.
‘If we’re not clever about this, no one will get to your brother,’ Schofield tells Blake, who responds, ‘I will.’
Grim: Colin Firth’s character General Erinmore tells the men upon assigning the crucial mission, ‘Your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrow morning’s attack – if you fail, it will be a massacre’
Grueling: Blake and Schofield are seen making their way through enemy areas, sometimes being fired on, as the violence of the first World War is boldly captured by Mendes
Focused: The men must achieve their task of 1,600 fellow soldiers will die
At one point amid the chaos, Schofield asks Blake: ‘Why in God’s name did you have to choose me?’
The motion picture looks to be an early award season favorite, having been nominated for three Golden Globes earlier this month: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director for Mendes, and Best Original Score for Thomas Newman.
The film is also up for eight Critics’ Choice Awards, and has been well-received by the critic community so far, with a stellar Rotten Tomatoes rating of 94.
Visual: The trailer captures a vivid vision of the horrors of World War I
Acclaimed: The vivid motion picture looks to be an early award season favorite
Overwhelming: Actor John Hollingworth plays Sergeant Guthrie in the feted film
Mendes, speaking with CBS This Morning last week, said that the film was inspired by stories his veteran grandfather used to tell him about being a message carrier on the battlefront.
‘That was one of the things he was asked to do, because he was very small, 5-and-a-half feet. And the mist hung at six feet in no-man’s land in the winter, [so] they sent him with messages so he couldn’t be seen above the top of the mist by the enemy,’ the filmmaker said. ‘He never talked about his experiences in the war, even to his own children.
‘He never spoke about it until his 70s. He happened to speak about it with his grandchildren.’
Personal: Director-writer Sam Mendes said that the film was inspired by stories his veteran grandfather used to tell him about being a message carrier on the battlefront.
Out and about: Mendes was at a Q&A for the film in NYC Sunday
Vision: Mendes addressed a crowd about his upcoming war drama at the screening
Asked what his late grandfather would think of his latest film, Mendes noted that ‘he was a storyteller by trade’ and ‘was a novelist.
‘I think he would be proud a member of his family ended up telling stories, too,’ Mendes said. ‘But I also think he might have struggled to watch it. As a man who couldn’t talk about it for 60 years, there would have been – we have a name for it now, PTSD. But I think putting him back in the middle of it, he might have struggled with it.’
1917 opens in limited theaters December 25, with a widespread release due January 10.
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