If only Robert Redford‘s The Conspirator was as exciting as its new trailer made it seem. I saw the snooze-fest History Channel-level drama at TIFF last fall (short review here), and it left quite a bit to be desired. The impressive cast of James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood, Danny Huston, Justin Long, Colm Meaney, Alexis Bledel, and Tom Wilkinson makes it all the more disappointing. After an early teaser, we know have a full theatrical trailer, which you can check out below via Apple.
Synopsis: In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy), a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son, John. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life.
The Conspirator will hit theaters April 15th, 2011.
What do you think of the trailer? Do you want to see the film?