Brad Pitt Shows His Battle Fatigue in the New Trailer for 'Fury'

Now that he’s won World War Z, Brad Pitt returns to World War II in the gritty new drama Fury, set to premiere Nov. 14. In the new trailer, we see Pitt, who last took on the Nazis in 2009’s Inglourious Basterds, as “Wardaddy,” the leader of an American tank unit behind enemy lines in Germany. With the war nearly over and most of his platoon dead, the battle-weary sergeant must lead his remaining soldiers on their most dangerous mission yet. Shia LaBeouf, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal play the tank crew, while Logan Lerman (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) plays an inexperienced new recruit.

Fury sets itself apart from other war movies by focusing its action entirely around Wardaddy’s Sherman tank, named “Fury” by the soldiers. The most commonly used tank in WWII, the M4 Sherman nonetheless had some fatal flaws: it was notoriously flammable, and by 1945, it had been outclassed by heavier German tanks.

For writer-director David Ayer (End of Watch), the story is personal. “I’m a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war,” he told Collider. “And the stories that I heard were a hell of a lot different than the movies that I was seeing, so I wanted to make a movie about the people that were really there.”

Ayer also promises that audiences will see “a very different Brad Pitt,” which is evident in the clip. The handsome leading man has scars on his face and carries himself like a boxer in the last round of a fight, as he spits out lines like, “The dying’s not done. The killing’s not done.” The film looks harrowing, and actor Bernthal has confirmed as much, calling it “one of the darkest war movies ever made.”