There’s something familiar about the sight of Brad Pitt in military uniform, with a southern accent, commanding a ragtag group of Allied soldiers deep in enemy territory in WW2. But, in contrast to his turn as Lieutenant Aldo Raine in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds (2009), this time he’s playing it dead straight.
The first trailer for Fury shows Pitt as the commander of a Sherman tank in Germany on the eve of D-Day. Wardaddy, as he is called, knows the war is almost over, but there’s still work to do. “It will end, soon, but before it does a lot more people gotta die,” he tells his exhausted crew.
Just for good measure, he adds this little epithet: “Deals are peaceful, history is violent.”
The film is written and directed by David Ayer, best known as the writer of the Denzel Washington hit
