Brian Cox is CHURCHILL in First Trailer for the Biopic

Lionsgate has released the first trailer for Churchill, starring Brian Cox as the former British Prime Minister. The film focuses on the buildup to D-Day and the decision-making process leading up to the invasion.

Churchill is directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and also stars Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, James Purefoy, Julian Wadham, Richard Durden, and Ella Purnell. It will be in U.S. theaters on June 2nd before being released in the U.K. on June 16th.

June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a million soldiers are secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to invade Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when over 500,000 soldiers were killed on the beaches of Gallipoli. Exhausted by years of war and plagued by depression, Churchill is a shadow of the hero who has resisted Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. Should the D-Day landings fail, he is terrified he’ll be remembered as the architect of carnage. Only the unflinching support of Churchill’s brilliant, unflappable wife Clementine can halt the Prime Minister’s physical and mental collapse.