First trailer for 'Hostiles' reveals Scott Cooper's upcoming Western

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By Darian Scalamoni

            With the Toronto International Film Festival currently going on, we’re getting plenty of Oscar buzz from multiple films. One of those is Scott Cooper’s (Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart) upcoming western, Hostiles and we have the trailer for you below.

            Hostiles tells the story of a U.S. Cavalry officer who is ordered to accompany a Cheyenne war chief and his family back to their homeland in Montana. The bigger issue is that the Captain, played by Christian Bale must help his mortal enemy, Chief Yellow Hawk to safety, regardless of his racist views.

            This trailer showcases a very raw, emotional journey for all of the characters involved and based on the glimmering review from TIFF, I’m even more excited for this film that I thought I could be. The cast is one of the better ensembles in recent years and will reunite Cooper with Bale, who starred in Out of the Furnace. Though I wasn’t a huge fan of the latter, Black Mass, which came close to garnering Johnny Depp an Oscar nomination as Whitey Bulger was one of my favorite gangster movies in recent memory.

            Check out the trailer below for Hostiles. The movie stars Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Adam Beach, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane and Q’orianka Kilcher. Hostiles has yet to get distribution from a studio so no release date is set but expect it to hit theaters later this year!