Midway Teaser Trailer: Roland Emmerich Makes a Real War Film

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A teaser trailer has arrived for Roland Emmerich's Midway. The director is known for having wreaked havoc on the world in films like Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012. Every so often, however, Emmerich likes to take a break from the CGI pyrotechnics and try his hand at a comparatively grounded period piece. Among the topics he's tackled so far are the American Revolutionary War (The Patriot), the 1969 Stonewall protests (Stonewall), and the conspiracy theories about who really wrote William Shakespeare's plays (Anonymous).

With Miday, Emmerich turns his attention to WWII and the Battle of Midway, an important turning point in the Pacific Theater (the theater of the war between the Allies and Japanese Empire). The film is led by a star-studded cast that includes Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Mandy Moore, and Luke Evans, in addition to Woody Harrelson, Dennis Quad, and Aaron Eckhart. Now, with the summer movie season underway, Lionsgate is getting the film's marketing campaign up and running.

The teaser trailer for Midway is now online (courtesy of USA Today), and will presumably debut in theaters over the forthcoming weeks. You can check it out in the space below.

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