After this year’s Good Kill seemed to come and arrive without much attention, another war drama surrounding drones will try to capture audiences this spring. Eye in the Sky, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival this fall, was picked up by Bleecker Street, and now we have the first trailer.
Starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, and Barkhad Abdi, it comes from director Gavin Hood, who gave us the disappointing Ender’s Game and ultra-disappointing X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but is thankfully returning to smaller-scale drama here. The story centers on Paul’s character getting into a difficult situation when preparing for a drone strike. Check out the first trailer below.
EYE IN THE SKY stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Eye in the Sky opens on March 11th, 2016.