First Trailer For The Goldfinch Starring Ansel Elgort And Nicole Kidman

Donna Tartt‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch has been a celebrated book since 2013. Like many award winning books you wonder why its taken so long to make it to the big screen. This Autumn the wait will be over and today we get the film’s first trailer, courtesy of Warner Bros.

After several films as support act then lead role in Baby Driver Ansel Elgort gets another chance as lead character. In an award winning book he plays a young man in grief and guilt, when his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Trailer looks fantastic plus its a film with legendary Roger Deakins as Cinematographer…

Theodore “Theo” Decker was 13 years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day…a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch. The Goldfinch.

The film also stars Oakes Fegley (Pete’s Dragon) as Young Theo, Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk) as Boris, Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things, It) as Young Boris, with Sarah Paulson (The Post,American Crime Story) as Xandra, Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums) as Larry, and Jeffrey Wright (The Hunger Games films) as Hobie. Ashleigh Cummings (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries) as Pippa, Willa Fitzgerald (Little Women) as Kitsey Barbour, Aimee Laurence (Chicago P.D.) as Young Pippa, Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story) as Lucius Reeve, Boyd Gaines (2014’s Driving Miss Daisy) as Mr. Barbour, Peter Jacobson (Colony) as Mr. Silver, Luke Kleintank (The Man in the High Castle) as Platt Barbour, Robert Joy (CSI: NY) as Welty, and newcomer Ryan Foust as Andy.