Producer J.J.
Abrams makes films with aliens and monsters, time travel and death-defying stunts.
Yet in 17 years, his Bad Robot Productions has never released R-rated content — until now.
Paramount Pictures’ CinemaCon presentation delivered the first footage from “Overlord,” out this fall from sophomore feature director Julius Avery (“Son of a Gun”).“This movie is batshit crazy” and “super fun,” said Abrams via videotaped introduction, addressing the 4,300 seat Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Jacob Anderson, Pilou Asbæk, Dominic Applewhite, Iain de Caestecker, John Magaro, Mathilde Ollivier, and Bokeem Woodbine form the ensemble cast.The footage opens in June 1944, the night before Allied marines invade Normandy on D-Day.
Enemy fire attacks a plane full of World War II soldiers, and several parachute into the ocean.
Survivors trek through the forest, and one spots an abandoned Nazi compound and peers through a hole in the wall.
A bloody eye leaps into frame.
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