Universal has released a new trailer for Charlie Wilson’s War, which is directed by Mike Nichols (Closer, The Graduate, The Birdcage) and stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Om Puri, Jud Tylor and Nazanin Boniadi. Based on George Crile’s book about the CIA’s largest and most successful covert CIA operation, War follows a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s (Hanks) who teamed with a rogue CIA operative (Hoffman), to manipulate Congress, the CIA and a other foreign governments in order to assist the Afghan rebels in their fight against the Soviets in the 1980s.
I’ve heard that Phillip Seymour Hoffman will get a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this one. And it looks great, and has some big names, but the real question is: Will people buy tickets to another war film? Sure, this isn’t about the Iraq war, it’s set almost 30 years ago, but the box office (and buzz coming out of the Toronto Film Festival) suggests that people aren’t interesting in another war film.
Check out the new trailer after the jump.
You can also watch the new trailer in High Definition at Yahoo! Movies. Charlie Wilson’s War hits theaters on December 25th 2007.
October 11th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Interesting. Hanks and Hoffman are great actors.
October 11th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Not a bad trailer, but neither a great one. I feel they are rather underselling the film, which I have no problem with (since it doesn’t spoil the actual complete film) but it makes me ponder whether people will actually go and see this.
As for how the whole film will turn out, I expect it to be great. Aaron Sorkin is a fantastic writer and his humour seemed very evident in the trailer, which is welcome. Nichols, Hanks, Roberts, Hoffman and Newton-Howard are some great people to have behind a film and I’ll be waiting to read the reviews to see how this one is recieved.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
it says screenplay by aaron sorkin there at the end, i will have to keep an eye on this.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:56 am
hoffman looking like that is a big seller.
lord of war 2?
October 12th, 2007 at 1:36 am
The music choices in the trailer are not only cliche, they’re out of place. It’s the 80’s for crissake.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Indeed so many films related to War or terrorism: real life is violent enough, no need to overflow our theaters too..