Amsterdam trailer revealed: Margot Robbie leads star-studded murder mystery comedy

You can’t count on two hands the insane number of famous faces set to appear in Margot Robbie’s new movie.

Amsterdam is in cinemas on November 3. Picture: 20th Century Fox

You’d be hard-pressed to find another movie out this year with as stacked a cast as Amsterdam.

The trailer just dropped for the David O. Russell-directed film, to be released in Australia on November 3, and it’s a veritable who’s who of Hollywood luminaries.

It stars Margot Robbie, Christian Bale and John David Washington in the lead roles while the supporting cast includes – *takes a breath* – Robert De Niro, Taylor Swift, Rami Malek, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Rock, Michael Shannon, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alessandro Nivola, Timothy Olyphant, Andrea Riseborough, Mike Myers and Zoe Saldana.

Margot Robbie is one of the three leads of Amsterdam. Picture: 20th Century Fox

Amsterdam is a murder mystery comedy set in the 1930s and is centred on a trio of friends (Robbie, Bale and Washington) who are accused of a killing. In order to exonerate themselves, they must find the real culprit.

The trailer suggests shenanigans, schemes and hidden agendas are afoot – very promising for the genre.

But the trailer release is not without controversy, with many punters on social media pointing to the scandals that still embroil Russell, who has previously made I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and Joy.

The Oscar-nominated American filmmaker is renowned for his difficult behaviour towards cast and crew on set, having had run-ins with George Clooney, Lily Tomlin and Amy Adams.

Asked if he would ever work with Russell again after their fist fight on Three Kings, Clooney said life was too short.

And the Sony email hack in 2014 revealed that during the filming of American Hustle in 2013, Russell had “so abused Amy Adams that Christian Bale got in his face and told him to stop acting like an a**ehole”.

Adams later told GQ that Russell made her cry.

“He was hard on me, that’s for sure. It was a lot. I was really just devastated on set.”

But the most controversial incident relating to Russell is a 2011 allegation from his then-19-year-old transgender niece who accused him of fondling her breasts.

A police investigation resulted in no charges and Russell, whose representatives denied “any wrongdoing” didn’t dispute the event as such. He told police that she was “acting very provocative toward him”.