After pulling off a documentary-style found-footage drama with their overlooked The Dirties, Matt Johnson and Josh Boles are back with Operation Avalanche. Set in the late ’60s, the Sundance drama finds four young C.I.A. agents convincing their superiors to send them undercover at NASA, posing as a documentary film crew. It’s been set for a fall release, thanks to Lionsgate, and the first trailer has now arrived.
We said in our review, “Perhaps the most famous of all American conspiracy theories, Johnson and Boles’ docu-style rendering of the non-event feels confident and quick. These filmmakers have a knack for pacing, readily cutting out any fat from a given scene to keep the proceedings raw and gripping.”
Check out the trailer (via i09) and poster below for the film starring Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Josh Boles, and Ray James.
In 1967, during the height of the Cold War, two young CIA agents (Matt Johnson and Owen Williams) go undercover at NASA to investigate a possible Russian mole. In disguise as documentary filmmakers, they tap phones and break into offices while purporting to learn more about the Apollo project. But when they end up uncovering a shocking NASA secret — and a major government cover-up — they decide to embark on a new mission that may put their own lives at risk.
Operation Avalanche is in theaters September 16th.