‘Rescue Dawn’ trailer, finally.
There's been a really cruddy flash teaser trailer available on the 'Gibraltar Films' website for about 6 months now, but finally we get a full trailer and in glorious quicktime too. Rescue Dawn is the new film from Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) starring Christian Bale and Steve Zahn.
This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler, to be played by Bale, organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin (Zahn).
It looks really good to me, and reminds me a lot of 'BAT 21' and other similar themed 'escape from Vietnam' movies.
Check out the trailer in normal sized quicktime and HD here
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I’m a huge fan of Herzog, particularly the stuff he did with raging ego-maniac Klaus Kinski, but I’m not sure if he can direct an action film. ‘Grizzly Man’ was amazing but his last feature film ‘Invincible’ was embarassingly awful. Judging by the trailer for ‘Rescue Dawn’ (Appalling title by the way) I don’t hold much hope for it being any good. He should stick to making documentaries. He’s already made one about this same story anyway. Hopefully I’ll be proved wrong.