After winning the Academy Award for Best Director with
"Life of Pi" in 2013,
Ang Lee returns with the war drama
"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk".
Based on the novel written by
Ben Fountain, the film tells the story of 19-year-old Billy Lynn (
Joe Alwyn), who is brought home after a harrowing Iraq battle and celebrated alongside his squadmates as heroes during the halftime show of a Thanksgiving Day football game. In the meantime, flashbacks reveal what really happened to his squad, contrasting the realities of the war with America's perceptions.
Vin Diesel, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund and
Steve Martin co-star.
Lee promises a ground-breaking experience as the film is shot at 120 frames per second in 4K native 3D that will offer moviegoers an unprecedented experience in terms of realism and visual detail. Even from the brief snippets of footage from the trailer, it looks visually stunning. Here's what
Kristen Stewart had to say about Lee's ground-breaking technique:
"An insanely high frame rate would give you like a slow motion effect, but if you put it in real time you’re just getting more information than we’re used to. But usually if you do that without whatever process he’s doing—which I have no idea—it makes it look like reality TV, it makes it crisp in a way that actually detaches you. [But] he messes with depth of field and makes this 3D situation where—usually the way a lens works, you control where the focal point is, [but] in this case everything’s in focus… So when you watch the movie you can decide, almost as if you’re there in person, what you want to look at, which has just never been seen before on film."
"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" opens in theaters on November 11th.
Check out the trailer and poster after the jump.
