Already getting Oscar buzz, tells the story of the First World War, and two young British soldiers, Schofield ( Captain Fantastic's George MacKay) and Blake ( Game of Thrones' Dean-Charles Chapman) who are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers-with Blake's own brother being among them.
"Your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrow morning's attack, if you fail it will be a massacre!"
Sam Mendes, the Oscar ®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, 1917, in theaters Friday, January 10th.