First Red Band Trailer for FILTH Starring James McAvoy
The first red band trailer for Jon S. Baird’s dark comedy “Filth” starring James McAvoy has been released. Based on Irvine Welsh’s novel of the same name, the film centers on a bipolar bigoted junkie cop who manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure a promotion and win back his wife and daughter. Warning: the trailer is definitely NSFW.
Scheming Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), a bigoted and corrupt policeman, is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Enlisted to solve a brutal murder and threatened by the aspirations of his colleagues, including Ray Lennox (Jamie Bell), Bruce sets about ensuring their ruin, right under the nose of unwitting Chief Inspector Toal. As he turns his colleagues against one another by stealing their wives and exposing their secrets, Bruce starts to lose himself in a web of deceit that he can no longer control. His past is slowly catching up with him, and a missing wife, a crippling drug habit and suspicious colleagues start to take their toll on his sanity. The question is: can he keep his grip on reality long enough to disentangle himself from the filth?
Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, Joanne Froggatt, Emun Elliott, Kate Dickie, and Martin Compston also star. Filth will hit theaters in the UK later this year but does not have a North American date yet. Also, how great is this poster: