Netflix drops trailer for terror attack thriller 22 July

NORWAY’S deadliest terror attack, in which a right-wing extremist slaughtered 77 people, is the subject of Paul Greengrass’s latest film.

NETFLIX has released the trailer for its high-octane thriller, 22 July, based on the real-life Norwegian massacre in which Anders Breivik killed 77 people.

The film will be a play-by-play of Norway’s most devastating attack in which Breivik, a right-wing extremist, detonated a bomb in central Oslo before opening fire on a youth leadership camp, slaughtering dozens.

The film will also trace the fallout from the day as the usually socially cohesive country comes to grips with such an unfathomable event.

Barely escaped

22 July is written and directed by Paul Greengrass, best known for helming three of the five Jason Bourne movies. He has waded into these particular waters before as the director of United 93, a 9/11 real-time dramatisation of the events above United Airlines flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers overcame the terrorists.

The trailer for 22 July focuses on two people: Breivik and a student at the youth camp who survives the horrific attack. The trailer also features moments of Greengrass’s signature shaky-cam style.

The film stars Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Oigarden, Thorbjorn Harr and Ola G. Furuseth.

It will have its global premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week.

22 July will drop on Netflix on October 10.