Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Parkland Peek: "We Had Him..."

The very powerful first trailer for the ensemble drama "Parkland"--about President John F. Kennedy's assassination has been released.


The title refers to the hospital where JFK was pronounced dead, his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died two days later, and Oswald's killer Jack Ruby died several years after that.

James Badge Dale Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton Zac Efron Marcia Gay Harden Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, David Harbour Ron Livingston former "Smallville" star Tom Welling
Gil Bellows Austin Nichols Matt Barr and Jacki Weaver star.

Writer Peter Landesman is set to make his directorial debut on the film which chronicles the fateful day and private citizen Abraham Zapruder's famous film of the event. Landesman also penned the adapted screenplay from a book by the famed Vincent Bugliosi

Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are set to produce the pic.

"Parkland" is scheduled for a September 20 release--getting it into theaters just before the 50th anniversary of the assassination.



Looks like it's going to be taking viewers right there--a witness to history from multiple angles of the tragedy

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