Tina Fey Goes to War in the 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' Trailer
Tina Fey’s raunchy and celebrity-filled party flick Sisters is hitting theaters on Thursday evening. But that’s not the only dose of the comedian we’ll be getting today. This morning, Paramount dropped the first trailer for Fey’s next project, the based on a real-life war comedy Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Based on the 2011 memoir The Taliban Shuffle by Chicago Tribune reporter Kim Barker, the film features Fey as a bored and lonely journalist who volunteers to cover the American occupation of Afghanistan, both out of civic duty and as a way of mixing up her stale life. Watch the trailer above.
After years of serious films focusing on the hellish nature of modern warfare in the Middle East, the endless instability has now become ripe for satire. Fey, in Liz Lemon mode here after playing against-type as a party girl in Sisters, enters an absurd world of debaucherous reporters, sexist locals, and increasingly detached news outlets, all of which she must navigate as she tries to find both a good story and her own lost sense of purpose.
It is, as one Afghani woman tells her bluntly, “The most white-woman story ever.”
Joining her on the journey — which is directed by Glenn Ficara and John Requa (Focus) — are fellow reporters played by Margot Robbie and Martin Freeman (who looks to be Fey’s love interest). Billy Bob Thornton, meanwhile, plays a military commander. Also in the film are Alfred Molina and Christopher Abbot, who both play Afghani men — casting decisions that will likely draw a lot of raised eyebrows.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot hits theaters on March 4.
