Chris Hemsworth in 12 Strong

12 Strong Trailer #1 (2018) *The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers*

*Text from Coming Soon
WB has debuted the first trailer for 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers, starring Chris Hemsworth (ThorThe Avengers films) and Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary RoadNocturnal Animals). The new war drama, from Alcon Entertainment, Black Label Media and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, is based on Doug Stanton’s best-selling book Horse Soldiers and is the story of heroism based on true events that unfolded a world away in the aftermath of 9/11. 

Chris Hemsworth in 12 Strong

Award-winning director Nicolai Fuglsig directed the film, which is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Black Hawk Down), together with Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill (La La LandSicario) under their Black Label Media banner. Oscar winner Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs) and Peter Craig (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Parts 1 & 2) wrote the screenplay. The executive producers are Oscar nominees and Alcon principals Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson (The Blind Side), together with Chad Oman, Mike Stenson, Ellen H. Schwartz, Garrett Grant, Yale Badik and Val Hill.

The main cast also includes Michael Peña (The MartianAnt-Man) and Navid Negahban (American SniperHomeland). Joining Hemsworth, Shannon and Peña as the “12 Strong” U.S. Special Forces team are Trevante Rhodes, Geoff Stults, Thad Luckinbill, Austin Stowell, Ben O’Toole, Austin Hebert, Kenneth Miller, Kenny Sheard and Jack Kesy. Actors portraying soldiers of Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance include Laith Nakli, Fahim Fazli and Yousuf Azami, and Said Taghmaoui as a Taliban military leader. Also seen in the film are Elsa Pataky, as Nelson’s wife, and William Fichtner and Rob Riggle as U.S. Army officers.

12 Strong is set in the harrowing days following 9/11 when a U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Hemsworth), is chosen to be the first U.S. troops sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince Northern Alliance General Dostum (Negahban) to join forces with them to fight their common adversary: the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. In addition to overcoming mutual distrust and a vast cultural divide, the Americans—accustomed to state-of-the-art warfare—must adopt the rudimentary tactics of the Afghani horse soldiers. But despite their uneasy bond, the new allies face overwhelming odds: outnumbered and outgunned by a ruthless enemy that does not take prisoners.

12 Strong is slated for release on January 19, 2018.
Chris Hemsworth and Michael Pena in 12 Srong

5 thoughts on “12 Strong Trailer #1 (2018) *The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers*”

  1. It could potentially be a good movie with a cast like that, even go pretty well since we mark down our grades on the movies released within a year and January can be a good start for a movie industry production cycle.


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    1. It’s been since Cloverfield really when we got a solid film in the first few weeks of the year. Underworld 5 and Resident Evil 6 really set the tone for how largely disappointing this year has been overall (despite a nice group of 10-15 films at the top).

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      1. I agree. Many have expected more. Even the Star Wars: the force awaikening left a sour taste on the fans. Maybe people rose their expectations for the movies you mentioned after the poor showing from the last year. I think we have to take that too in our perspective.


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      2. I don’t think TFA left a bad taste with the fans. It was the highest grossing US movie of all-time and honestly I’ve heard nothing but positive feedback from the fanbase about it. I can’t wait for The Last Jedi. The problem is studios leave large sections of the year desolate of quality films then try to jam them all in choke points where they can’t all possibly be seen or succeed. January is usually when everyone catches up on the Oscar films, not watches new releases, but as IT showed us, if you release a great movie, people will go. It doesn’t matter what time of the year it is.

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