U.S. Trailer For CORIOLANUS Directed By Ralph Fiennes

TWC has unleashed this domestic trailer for CORIOLANUS. At this point, I doubt that Gerard Butler would get an Oscar nod for his performance in Machine Gun Preacher but perhaps he’d have better luck with this Shakespearean war film, seeing that he had to interact with the great Ralph Fiennes who is also the film’s director..

In the film, Caius Martius ‘Coriolanus’ (Fiennes), a revered and feared Roman General is at odds with the city of Rome and his fellow citizens. Pushed by his controlling and ambitious mother Volumnia (Redgrave) to seek the exalted and powerful position of Consul, he is loath to ingratiate himself with the masses whose votes he needs in order to secure the office. When the public refuses to support him, Coriolanus’s anger prompts a riot that culminates in his expulsion from Rome. The banished hero then allies himself with his sworn enemy Tullus Aufidius (Butler) to take his revenge on the city.

CORIOLANUS opens December 2nd, 2011