Blitz Trailer: Love and War

Apple TV+ released the first trailer for the upcoming film Blitz on Thursday. The film is set during World War II and is directed by Steve McQueen, known for making films like Widows (2018), 12 Years a Slave (2013), Shame (2011), and Hunger (2008).

The film stars debutant child actor Elliott Heffernan and Saoirse Ronan in the lead. The official plotline reads, "'Blitz' follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son."

The film also stars Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, CJ Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman, and Sally Messham. McQueen’s Lammas Park produces alongside Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films, Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan, and Michael Schaefer for New Regency, with producers Anita Overland and Adam Somner.

Hanz Zimmer will compose the music for Blitz, while Yorick Le Saux is the cinematographer. The film will release in select theatres on November 1 before streaming on Apple TV! from November 22.