Angelina Jolie finds herself in a race against time in a heart-pounding first official trailer for her upcoming film Those Who Wish Me Dead.
The 45-year-old plays a survival expert in a forest who comes along a blood-spattered boy (Finn Little) whose father has just been murdered.
She becomes the child’s protector as his father’s murderers attempt to hunt him down – eventually starting a raging wildfire to smoke him out.
Thriller: Angelina Jolie finds herself in a race against time in a heart-pounding trailer for her upcoming film Those Who Wish Me Dead
The murderers who are related to each other are played by Tolkien actor Nicholas Hoult and Aiden Gillen who played Littlefinger on Game Of Thrones.
In a flashback the little boy – who is called Connor – is seen in a car with his father until they are gunned off the road causing a disastrous wreck.
His father manages to get Connor out of the car in time but he himself is stuck there when the killers Patrick and Jack Blackwell arrive.
While Connor is haunted by memories of his father’s death Angelina’s character Hannah cannot shake her guilt over her handling of a previous wildfire.
Protector: The 45-year-old plays a survival expert in a forest who comes along a blood-spattered little boy played by Finn Little whose father has just been murdered
Running for their lives: She becomes the boy’s protector as his father’s murderers attempt to hunt him down – eventually starting a raging wildfire to smoke him out
Spotted in the act: The murderers who are related to each other are played by Tolkien heartthrob Nicholas Hoult (right) and Aiden Gillen who played Littlefinger on Game Of Thrones
Last moments: In a flashback the little boy – who is called Connor – is seen in a car with his father until they are gunned off the road causing a disastrous car wreck
Terrifying: His father manages to get Connor out of the car in time but he himself is stuck there when the killers Patrick and Jack Blackwell arrive
Trauma: While Connor is haunted by memories of his father’s death Angelina’s character Hannah cannot shake her guilt over her handling of a previous wildfire
As clips play of the catastrophic event her voice-over says softly: ‘I read the wind wrong – I should have gone to them.’
Hannah is assigned to a fire tower and looking out with her binoculars when she spots Connor wandering through the woods alone.
She has to chase him down and tackle him in order to ascertain ‘where the blood’s coming from’ only for him to reveal: ‘It’s not my blood.’
‘Are you in trouble?’ she asks him in a later scene and he shares: ‘My dad said if anything happened I should find someone I can trust. Are you someone I can trust?’
Remembering when: As clips play of the catastrophic event her voice-over says softly: ‘I read the wind wrong – I should have gone to them’
Turning point: Hannah is assigned to a fire tower and looking out with her binoculars when she spots Connor wandering through the woods alone
First meeting: She has to chase him down and tackle him in order to ascertain ‘where the blood’s coming from’ only for him to reveal: ‘It’s not my blood’
‘Are you someone I can trust?’: ‘Are you in trouble?’ she asks him in a later scene and he shares: ‘My dad said if anything happened I should find someone I can trust’
Meanwhile Jon Bernthal plays a sheriff whose boss – played by Tyler Perry – orders him: ‘We promise absolutes. Act accordingly.’
One night Hannah and Connor are hiding in the fire tower and the Blackwells show up outside guns blazing and ready to kill again.
Hannah catches sight of them out the window with her binoculars and Connor identifies them as his father’s murderers.
Once they start shooting Connor and Hannah have to make a mad dash out of the fire tower and go on the run through the wilderness.
Dashing: Meanwhile Jon Bernthal plays a sheriff whose boss – played by Tyler Perry – orders him: ‘We promise absolutes’
There’s the tower: One night Hannah and Connor are hiding in the fire tower and the Blackwells show up outside guns blazing and ready to kill again
Disaster: Aidan’s character Jack throws a stick of dynamite into the woods in order to ‘give ’em something else to worry about’ – a rapidly spreading and seemingly unstoppable fire
Aidan’s character Jack throws a stick of dynamite into the woods in order to ‘give ’em something else to worry about’ – a rapidly spreading and seemingly unstoppable fire.
The flames are seen tearing through the woods at shocking speeds such that the people in their vicinity are scarcely able to outrun them.
Hannah first catches sight of the inferno from afar and by that time it has already engulfed what appears to be multiple acres of woodland.
‘Listen, you’re gonna run and you’re gonna keep running,’ Hannah tells Connor in a moment of desperation adding that the fire ‘eats everything in its path.’
Horror: In one bloodcurdling moment Connor is seen in tears as one of the Blackwells draws a knife and asks Hannah: ‘You really wanna die for this kid?’
She remembers: ‘Listen, you’re gonna run and you’re gonna keep running,’ Hannah tells Connor in a moment of desperation adding that the fire ‘eats everything in its path.’
To the percussive strains of the Johnny Cash song God’s Gonna Cut You Down the duo are seen trying to escape the killers and the fire all at once.
In one bloodcurdling moment Connor is seen in tears as one of the Blackwells draws a knife and asks Hannah: ‘You really wanna die for this kid?’
During another hair-raising sequence Patrick is seen advancing through a building with a gun as Connor tries to hide under a bed.
Hannah and Connor are glimpsed running at breakneck speak downhill through the woods as the inferno follows just behind them.
Mood music: To the percussive strains of the Johnny Cash song God’s Gonna Cut You Down the duo are seen trying to escape the killers and the fire all at once
Into the deep: ‘Take a deep breath, hold it and lay back!’ Hannah shouts before she and Connor submerge themselves completely – with her keeping a grip on his hand
Eventually they wind up floating in a body of water but even that location is not protection enough for them.
‘Take a deep breath, hold it and lay back!’ Hannah shouts before she and Connor submerge themselves completely – with her keeping a grip on his hand.
Directed by Sicario writer Taylor Sheridan the movie is slated for release on theaters and for a month on HBO Max beginning May 14.
In addition to writing such films as Hell Or High Water he has acted on Sons Of Anarchy and directed the acclaimed 2017 crime drama Wind River.
Incoming: Directed by Sicario writer Taylor Sheridan the movie is slated for release on theaters and for a month on HBO Max beginning May 14
Pedigree: In addition to writing such films as Hell Or High Water he has acted on Sons Of Anarchy and directed the acclaimed 2017 crime drama Wind River
The movie is adapted from a 2014 novel of the same name whose author Michael Koryta adapted the script with Taylor and Blood Diamond writer Charles Leavitt.
In a recent People interview Angelina said Hannah ‘carries a lot of guilt, and is quite broken. She’s a smoke jumper, and a bit of an adrenaline junkie, but she’s also somebody that has experienced tragedy, and she feels responsible for it.’
Angelina, who has six children, said that ‘I had so much fun with Finn’ and added that ‘He can become very emotional and weep about something, and he can also jump over a building and dodge bullets and love it.’
Meanwhile Finn gushed: ‘Angelina is great! She’s fun on set and very easy to work with. She is nurturer on and off set. She’s lovely. I was so lucky!’
Source material: The movie is adapted from a 2014 novel of the same name whose author Michael Koryta adapted the script with Taylor and Blood Diamond writer Charles Leavitt
‘She feels responsible’: In a recent People interview Angelina described her character Hannah as a woman who ‘carries a lot of guilt, and is quite broken’
‘I had so much fun with Finn’: She said of Finn: ‘He can become very emotional and weep about something, and he can also jump over a building and dodge bullets and love it’
‘She is a nurturer on and off set’: Meanwhile Finn gushed: ‘Angelina is great! She’s fun on set and very easy to work with’
