The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: First Trailer
Warner Brothers releases trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Warners Brothers released the first trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of the cult sixties spy series The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The upcoming film will star Henry Cavill, star of Batman v Superman and Man Of Steel as Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer, from The Lone Ranger and The Social Network as Illya Kuryakin. In the original series, Solo was played by Robert Vaughn and Kuryakin was played by Scottish actor David McCallum.
Watch it here:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was directed by Guy Ritchie who co-wrote the screenplay with Lionel Wigram, from a story by Jeff Kleeman, David Campbell Wilson. Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. also features Alicia Vikander from Anna Karenina; Elizabeth Debicki from The Great Gatsby; Jared Harris from Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows. Hugh Grant is putting in an appearance in the role of Waverly.
According to the official Warner Brothers synopsis: “Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. centers on CIA agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization, and they must race against time to find him and prevent a worldwide catastrophe.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. will be released on August 14, 2015.