The first trailer for “Stonewall” has just been released. Watch it here.
Directed by the filmmaker best-known for blockbusters like “Independence Day,” “2012,” and “The Day After Tomorrow,” the trailer for Roland Emmerich’s highly-anticipated drama, “Stonewall,” has just been released.
The film is a fictionalized chronicle of the events that led up to and followed the iconic Stonewall riots, which many point to as being the start of the modern-day gay rights movement.
“I’ve found the story I wanted to tell,” Emmerich says.
“STONEWALL is a drama about a fictional young man caught up during the 1969 Stonewall Riots,” the film’s Facebook page says.
Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine) is forced to leave behind friends and loved ones when he is kicked out of his parent’s home and flees to New York. Alone in Greenwich Village, homeless and destitute, he befriends a group of street kids who soon introduce him to the local watering hole The Stonewall Inn; however, this shady, mafia-run club is far from a safe-haven. As Danny and his friends experience discrimination, endure atrocities and are repeatedly harassed by the police, we see a rage begin to build. This emotion runs through Danny and the entire community of young gays, lesbians and drag queens who populate the Stonewall Inn and erupts in a storm of anger. With the toss of a single brick, a riot ensues and a crusade for equality is born.
“Stonewall” stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Joey King, Jeremy Irvine, and Ron Perlman, and is scheduled for release in theaters September 25.
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