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‘Widows’ Official Trailer: Viola Davis Leads an All-Star Cast

20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises just released a riveting new trailer for Widows, a heist thriller directed by Oscar-winner Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave). McQueen wrote the screenplay with Gillian Flynn (author of Gone Girl, Dark Places), based on the six-part 1983 mini-series written by Lynda La Plante.

Oscar-winner Viola Davis (Fences) leads a cast that includes Michelle Rodriguez (the Fast and the Furious films), Elizabeth Debicki (The Cloverfield Paradox), Cynthia Erivo (Mr. Selfridge), Colin Farrell (Killing of a Sacred Deer), Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Garret Dillahunt (Fear the Walking Dead), Carrie Coon (The Leftovers), Jacki Weaver (Secret City), and Jon Bernthal (The Punisher). Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, and Liam Neeson are also featured in the crime drama. Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Steve McQueen, and Arnon Milchan served as producers.

Widows will open in theaters on November 16, 2018.

The Plot: From Academy Award-winning director Steve McQueen and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption. Widows is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Michelle Rodriguez, Viola Davis, and Elizabeth Debicki star in Twentieth Century Fox’s ‘Widows’ (Photo Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox)
Colin Farrell in a scene from ‘Widows’ (Photo Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox)
Daniel Kaluuya and Brian Tyree Henry in Twentieth Century Fox’s ‘Widows’ (Photo Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox)
Viola Davis stars in Twentieth Century Fox’s ‘Widows’ (Photo Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox)



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Rebecca Murray: Journalist covering the entertainment industry for 23+ years, including 13 years as the first writer for About.com's Hollywood Movies site. Member of the Critics Choice Association (Film & TV Branches), Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and Past President of the San Diego Film Critics Society.
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