Overlord
American soldier uncover terrify closed book behind foeman lines in the first trailer for producer J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot ’s WWII horror / thriller , Overlord . Directed by Julius Avery ( Son of a Gun ) from a book by Billy Ray ( Captain Phillips ) and Mark L. Smith ( The Revenant),Overlordtakes place against the backdrop of the real - life Operation Overlord and D - Day , as a grouping of U.S. paratroopers carry out a missionary station forwards of the big invasion . Along the way , however , they con that worrying and perhaps supernatural experimentation are being impart under the natural covering of a Nazi - occupy village .
It ’s been reported , but unconfirmed , for some sentence thatOverlordbegan as an original undertaking , and has sincebeen turned into aCloverfieldmovie(like10 Cloverfield LaneandThe Cloverfield Paradoxbefore it ) . However , when he speak at Paramount ’s CinemaCon presentation back in April , Abrams abnegate thatOverlordis aCloverfieldfilmand said the project is a strange genre - go movie , all its own . Based on the freshly - released trailer for the film , it appears that Abrams was ( most emphatically ) tell the truth when he said that .
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As for theOverlordcast , it include several actors who seem at home in this character of fantastic genre fare . Among the names appearing in the celluloid are Bokeem Woodbine ( Spider - Man : Homecoming ) , Iain De Caestecker ( Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ) , Pilou Asbæk ( spectre in the Shell ) , Wyatt Russell ( 22 Jump Street ) , Jovan Adepo ( The Leftovers ) , and Jacob Anderson ( Game of Thrones ) . For a canary peep at the lunacy that expect them in Nazi territory , watch theOverlordtrailer in the space above .
Like theOverlordteaser shown at CinemaCon , this trailer uncover enough about the picture to get viewers wanting to learn more , but without showing too many of its cards at the same fourth dimension . Abrams has previouslydescribedOverlordas"a crazy movie"and it does appear to be exactly that , judging by the freaky imagery and footage reveal so far . As it were , the powers that be at Bad Robot retrieve extremely enough of the film to have gone onwards and engage Avery to lead another project , in the form ofan original superhero movie titledThe Heavy .
Of naturally , as with many Bad Robot productions , there is a risk that the ultimate payoff wo n’t be deserving all the buildup , when it come toOverlord ’s secrets . likewise , the general subject of horrifying experiments that real - biography Nazis carried out during WWII is a sensitive one , and there is a peril this movie could come across as exploitive in the way it couch a fictitious horror / thriller spin on the idea . Here ’s to hop neither of those things prove to be the case andOverlordgives Paramount another howling one - off creepy flick to go with this spring’sA Quiet Place .
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