Earlier today we brought you the first image of George Clooney’s latest directing effort sure to be considered for some top awards early next year. However, we’re going to do one better by showcasing the first trailer for the film revolving around the fact-based story of a group of art specialists chosen by the U.S. government to retrieve artwork stolen by the Nazis during World War II. It’s based on the book by Robert M. Edsel and has Clooney leading alongside Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban and Hugh Bonneville. In addition, we’ve also another couple of new stills.
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.
THE MONUMENTS MEN is released in the US from 18th December, while us Brits will have to wait until 9th January, 2014.
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