Second Trailer Arrives For George Clooney’s THE MONUMENTS MEN

A-listers and Oscar winners star in this second trailer for THE MONUMENTS MEN.

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, THE MONUMENTS MEN is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners.

A vast improvement over the original teaser trailer. Will the film be among the Best Picture nominees in the upcoming Oscar race? We’ll find out when the nominations are announced on Thursday, January 16, 2014.

However this year’s Award Season pans out, THE MONUMENTS MEN, along with it’s star-studded cast, is akin to the old-Hollywood WWII movies THE DIRTY DOZEN, GUNS OF NAVARONE, and THE LONGEST DAY – all of which were big commercial successes and Academy Award winners.

It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed?

But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.

From director George Clooney, the film stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett.

The screenplay is by George Clooney & Grant Heslov, based on the book by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter. Produced by Grant Heslov and George Clooney.

Clooney’s crew on THE MONUMENTS MEN includes director of photography Phedon Papamichael, ASC, Oscar®-nominated production designer Jim Bissell , Academy Award®-winning editor Stephen Mirrione , A.C.E., costume designer Louise Frogley , and five-time Oscar® nominated composer Alexandre Desplat.  Barbara A. Hall is executive producer.

Look for THE MONUMENTS MEN in theaters December 18, 2013.

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