George Clooneyis taking audiences back to the 1936 Summer Olympics in his latest movie.
The movie stars Callum Turner (Fantastic Beasts) as Joe Rantz, a central member of the team who is shown reminiscing on his experiences during the Great Depression at the trailer’s start. Joe, a student at the college, quickly learns that if he joins its rowing team he’ll receive a part-time job and housing.
Upon joining, Joe and his teammates meet Coach Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton), who warns of the sport’s physical difficulty. The trailer — set toTom Petty’s 1989 classic “I Won’t Back Down” — showcases how the eight-man crew team quickly climbs in the national rankings during the collegiate season and develops an impressive camaraderie that takes them all the way to Nazi-era Germany for the Olympics.
Chris Diamantopoulos stars as Royal Brougham, James Wolk as Coach Bolles, and Joel Edgerton as Al Ulbrickson in director George Clooney’s The Boys in the Boat.Laurie Sparham
Laurie Sparham
“This inspirational true story follows a group of underdogs at the height of the Great Depression as they are thrust into the spotlight and take on elite rivals from around the world,” reads an official synopsis for the movie.
In an exclusive behind-the-scenes video from the movie’s set recently shared with PEOPLE, Clooney praised the real-life 1936 University of Washington rowing team as a group of underdogs who surprised the world with their Olympic performance. In real life, the team won a gold medal in Berlin, narrowly beating Italy and Germany for first place at an event that Adolf Hitler attended, according to a 2012Slatearticle about the team.
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Key art for George Clooney’s ‘The Boys in the Boat’.MGM
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“These guys at the University of Washington take on the seniors, and then taking on the fraternity kids, and then taking on the Nazis," Clooney said.
“Every film we’ve ever seen that has an underdog in it, you’re always rooting for them, that you can pull yourself up from nothing and succeed,” he added at the time.
George Clooney on the set of his movie ‘The Boys in the Boat’.Laurie Sparham
In addition to Edgerton, 49, and Turner, 33,The Boys in the Boat’s cast also features Peter Guinness, Jack Mulhern, James Wolk, Hadley Robinson, Courtney Henggeler, Sam Strike, Thomas Elms, Luke Slattery, Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Wil Coban, Thomas Stephen Varey and Chris Diamantopoulos.
The Boys in the Boatis in theaters Dec. 25.
source: people.com
