Look, it is not our fault that the casting call for serious war movies seems to read “handsome white men with boyish features.†We thought Dunkirk was a fluke. But the new trailer for 1917, Sam Mendes’s first war film since Jarhead, definitely proves that wrong. George MacKay (yes, from Amandla Stenberg’s Nazi movie) and Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones) star as two soldiers tasked with an important mission: Deliver a message through enemy territory, calling off an attack. If they don’t make it, 1,600 men will die, including one of their brothers. It is very serious and scary, but there are so many beautiful familiar faces to guide you through the anxiety. Richard Madden, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, and the hot priest himself, Andrew Scott, all feature in the film. Plus, it’s shot by cinematographer-crush Roger Deakins, famously meant to look like one continuous take. It’ll be Deakins’s second release this year, right after The Goldfinch, starring Ansel Elgort, Finn Wolfhard, and Aneurin Barnard. Apparently after hot-girl summer comes emotionally fraught, skinny white-boy fall.
