As Miles Teller moves farther away from YA adaptations and comic book films and more towards fully-fledged dramatic work, the path hasn’t been so easy. Last year’s boxing drama Bleed for This didn’t make much of a mark, but he’ll try again this fall with the PTSD war film Thank You For Your Service. Ahead of an October release, the first trailer has now arrived for the directorial debut from Jason Hall, writer of American Sniper.
“These guys aren’t coming home to a bunch of recognition and book deals like Chris Kyle. They’re blue-collar soldiers,” Hall tells USA Today. “That transition is very hard, and it’s invisible to us, because they’re not celebrated. As soon as they take off the uniform, they’re just the guy pumping gas next to us at the gas station. In a way, their war is stripped from them quicker than a war hero, because it’s not recognized by anyone around them.”
Also starring Haley Bennett, Beulah Koale, Amy Schumer, and Scott Haze, check out the trailer below.
The film follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they’ve left the battlefield.
Thank You For Your Service opens on October 27, 2017.