Watch The First Star-Studded Trailer For David O. Russell's Amsterdam
Amsterdam is David O. Russell's latest film for Disney and, judging from the trailer, the wholly original period comedy might as well redefine what star-studded really means with a cast that boasts the names of Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Robert De Niro, Rami Malek, and even Taylor Swift, just to name a few.
This will be Russell's ninth overall feature-length movie for a director who first earned praise for his work in I Heart Huckabees and The Fighter before earning further glory for Silver Linings Playbook in 2012. However, this time around Russell reunited with his American Hustle star Christian Bale to put together what is being dubbed a crime epic revolving around three friends and a series of shocking events in American history.
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The opening lines in Amsterdam's trailer already say a lot about the film, as it begins with notorious Oscars presenter Chris Rock, who also stars in the movie, perplexedly greeting the three protagonists and their “dead white man in a box” before switching to the group telling their own story. Bale's voice tells the audience, “we formed a pact and we swore to protect each other, no matter what” and dismissing some troubling murder accusations. The entire preview is backed by Ten Years After's 1971 hit, “I’d Love to Change the World,” far ahead of the movie’s 1930s setting but a song that, nonetheless, slots in perfectly with Amsterdam's imagery of Bale fumbling for his eye and the cautionary tale that “a lot of this actually happened.”
Besides the aforementioned stars, the rest of the cast is rounded off by Zoe Saldaña, Mike Myers, Timothy Olyphant, Michale Shannon, Anya Taylor-Joy, Leland Orser and Sean Avery. There
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