13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

James Badge Dale (Iron Man 3), John Krasinski (Away We Go), Max Martini (Pacific Rim), Toby Stephens (Die Another Day), Pablo Schreiber (Vicky Christina Barcelona), David Denman (The Gift), Dominic Fumusa (The Guru), Freddie Stroma (Harry Potter), David Costabile (Side Effects), Alexia Barlier (Conversations with My Gardener), Andrei Claude (Adormidera)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Michael Bay (Transformers), director, producer; Chuck Hogan (film debut), writer; Erwin Stoff (Edge of Tomorrow), producer; Lorne Balfe (Terminator Genisys), composer; Dion Beebe (Collateral), cinematographer; Pietro Scalia (Gladiator), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In 2012, a group of Islamist militants attack the American diplomatic compound and a nearby CIA base in Benghazi, Libya. A secret group of CIA security contractors, many of them military veterans, is authorised to storm the base and protect the American Ambassador and other hostages from the terrorists’ harm…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

An account of the controversial Benghazi operative from 2012 is retold for the screen… although the name attached to direct may give people some cause for concern.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 29TH JANUARY 2016

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