Yahoo Lifestyle Saoirse Ronan is a mother on a mission in the first trailer for Steve McQueen's “Blitz”
The Apple Originals film hits theaters Nov. 1.
Oscar-winner Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) has teamed up with four-time Oscar-nominee Saoirse Ronan (Greta Gerwig's Little Women) for November's Apple Originals film Blitz.
Written and directed by McQueen, the film follows follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother, Rita (Ronan), sends him to safety in the English countryside.
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Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan in 'Blitz'George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
The cast also includes Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, CJ Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman, and Sally Messham.
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Blitz marks McQueen's first feature narrative film since 2018's Widows, though he's kept busy with acclaimed limited series 2020's Small Axe and 2021's Uprising, as well as the 2023 documentary Occupied City.
Meanwhile, Ronan garnered her fourth Oscar nomination for 2019's Little Women, and has recently appeared in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch in 2021, alongside Sam Rockwell in 2022's See How They Run, opposite Paul Mescal in 2023's Foe, and this year she starred in The Outrun, based on Amy Liptrot's memoir of the same name.
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Blitz premieres in select theaters on Nov. 1 before bowing on Apple TV+ on Nov. 22. Check out the trailer below.
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