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| Fury will close the 2014 London Film Festival |
The European Premiere of Fury will close the 58th edition of the London Film Festival on October 19.
Written and directed by David Ayer, whose film End Of Watch screened in LFF Official Competition 2012, Fury stars Brad Pit as Don “Wardaddy” Collier, Shia LaBeouf as Boyd Swan, Logan Lerman as Norman Ellison, Michael Peña as Trini Garcia, and Jon Bernthal (The Wolf of Wall Street) as Grady Travis.
Pitt and Ayer are confirmed to attend the Closing Night Gala in London’s Leicester Square, while a cinecast from the red carpet and simultaneous screenings will take place at cinemas across the UK.
The film is set in April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push, battle-hardened army sergeant Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Festival director Clare Stewart said: “Fury is a resounding cinematic achievement. Rarely is a film so successful at balancing the human drama of war with such thrilling action sequences. We look forward to welcoming LFF alumni David Ayer and Brad Pitt to London as we draw the 58th BFI London Film Festival to a monumental close.”
Ayer added: “It is a great honor for our film to be chosen for the Closing Night celebration of the BFI London Film Festival – one of the leading festivals in Europe. It’s a true pleasure to be returning to England, where we shot the film – the fields of Oxfordshire and Bovingdon Airfield in Hertfordshire were our home for 12 weeks last year, so it’s something of a homecoming for us to present the movie at its European premiere. I’m thrilled that Festival audiences will be among the first in Europe to see it.”
Sony Pictures Releasing (UK) will release the film in the US on October 17 and in UK cinemas on October 24. Watch the trailer below.
