A new Netflix movie is putting college football stars on the front lines of World War II, and its latest trailer makes clear that this is no ordinary sports drama.
The red-band trailer for The Mosquito Bowl offers a bloody look at director Peter Berg’s upcoming war film, following four college football stars who put their athletic careers aside to enlist in the Marines after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The movie opens in select theaters Oct. 30 before arriving on Netflix Nov. 25 .
Nicholas Galitzine, Bill Skarsgård, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis play the four central football players, who are pulled from the world of packed stadiums and college fame into the realities of military training and combat.
The trailer moves quickly from football fields to the Pacific battlefield, showing explosions, gunfire, wounded soldiers, and the brutal conditions awaiting the young men.
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