We know from our history
books and Hollywood movies — including Saving Private Ryan and The
Longest Day, among others — that June 6, 1944 was D-Day, the turning
point of the war in Europe.
However, an event of
perhaps greater importance occurred in small French village on the evening of
June 5, 1944 that has been lost to history … until now. On Feb. 19, Paramount Home Media will launch
a three-SKU home entertainment invasion of director Julius Avery’s Overlord
(which was the closely-guarded code name for the Normandy invasion).
Planned for release are Combo Packs for both
the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray formats, as well as a stand-alone DVD edition.
The ARR works out to 102
days and domestic ticket sales for the film’s pre-Thanksgiving theatrical
launch were $21.7 million.
There were hundreds of
planes and gliders hauling paratroopers on the night of June 5, each group had
a mission. Such is the case of the
squad assigned a German radio tower located in a small French village … and as
we learned from Saving Private Ryan now everything went as a planned — they
even had a name for it, FUBAR.
Filmmaker Julius Avery’s Overlord is a FUBAR mission from the
D-Day invasion like none other!!!
Their aircraft is shot down
and only a handful of the paratroopers survive the crash, but the mission
continues … find the radio tower and blow it up before dawn! It will be a mission unlike any other that
took place on that fateful night!!
Avery’s mix of World War
II action and sci-fi is one of those wonderful surprises that surface from time
to time. The title — Overlord
— and the D-Day theme suggest (on the surface) a behind-the-lines war story,
but it quickly evolves into anything but that.
Corporal Ford (Wyatt
Russell — Table 19, Everybody Wants Some!!, etc.) is but one of a handful
who survive the crash and he suddenly finds himself in charge of the
mission. The target is in sight and
with his fellow survivors they set about to destroy the radio tower, but soon
discover that something weird has been going on … a sinister experiment by the
Nazis to create an invincible soldier.
The mission quickly turns
to one of survival and stopping a bigger threat than just the broadcasts from
the radio tower! And then there’s that
sudden realization that no one — not even the Allies — should have the results
of the science being created by these evil scientists.
Overlord … complete the mission … and SAVE THE WORLD in
the process!!!
Bonus features include a
six-part making-of production titled “The Horrors of War,” which features these
six components: “Creation,” “Death Above,” “Death on the Ground,” “Death
Below,” Death No More” and “Brothers in Arms.”
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