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Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit gets a pul­sat­ing first trailer

12 Apr 2017

Words by Sophie Wyatt

Take a first look at the director’s upcom­ing dra­ma about the 1967 Detroit riots.

Since her last fea­ture film, the 2012 Iraq War dra­ma Zero Dark Thir­ty, Kathryn Bigelow has been keep­ing a low pro­file. But that’s all about to change with the release of her next film, which looks to be her most polit­i­cal­ly-charged to date.

Fol­low­ing the announce­ment that she would be team­ing up once again with screen­writer Mark Boal for their third col­lab­o­ra­tion, a first look at the director’s upcom­ing crime dra­ma, now titled Detroit, has been released.

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The film focus­es on the dev­as­tat­ing riots which occurred across the city dur­ing the sum­mer of 1967, result­ing in one of the largest civ­il upris­ings in the his­to­ry of the Unit­ed States.

After a num­ber of clash­es between the police and every­day cit­i­zens, the vio­lence esca­lat­ed and con­tin­ued for five days, mak­ing it one of the most destruc­tive riots the coun­try has ever seen. This ear­ly teas­er effec­tive­ly sets the tone for what is one of our most antic­i­pat­ed films of 2017.

The cast, which was announced ear­li­er in the year, includes John Boye­ga, John Krasin­s­ki, Will Poul­ter, Jack Reynor, Chris Chalk and Nathan Davies Jr. Zero Dark Thirty’s Jere­my Strong will also make an appear­ance fol­low­ing his suc­cess­ful stint in Adam McKay’s 2015 finan­cial dra­ma The Big Short.

Detroit is set for release on 4 August, just after the 50th anniver­sary of the riots.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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