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Must Watch: First Trailer for Clint Eastwood's 'J. Edgar' with DiCaprio

by Alex Billington
September 19, 2011
Source: Apple

"When morals decline, and good men do nothing, evil flourishes." Warner Bros has finally debuted an amazing official trailer for Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, his exploration into the life of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, as played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the film. This first aired on Entertainment Tonight, but was also posted in HD on Apple. In addition to DiCaprio, J. Edgar stars Naomi Watts as Helen Gandy, Josh Lucas as Charles Lindbergh and up-and-comer Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson. This looks just phenomenal, I mean wow, definitely big Best Picture potential for sure. "We must never forget our history."

Watch the first official trailer for Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar, embedded via Apple:

You can also download the official J. Edgar trailer in High Definition on Apple

Warner Bros' new film J. Edgar explores the public and private life of one of the most powerful, controversial and enigmatic figures of the 20th century. Directed by Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Changeling, Gran Torino, Invictus, Hereafter) from a screenplay by Dustin Lance Black (Milk, "Big Love"), the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as well as Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, Judi Dench and Ed Westwick. The story traces Hoover's life from his childhood through ascent to power in the 20s, his 50-year reign over the FBI, and death in 1972. Warner Bros is opening J. Edgar in theaters November 9th.

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From around the web:

http://www.cine-escape.com Sakyo

Holy shit.. I am totally in
Anonymous

looks amazing
http://insomniawalking.tumblr.com/ First Place Loser.

I have been waiting for this. I am incredibly excited that the wait is almost over.
Ocp

DiCaprio + Eastwood = winning
http://twitter.com/QuanahTweets Quanah

Trailer looks Oscar worthy. I hope the rest of the film reflects that.
Anonymous

In my opinion, Leonardo with makeup up, in order to look old, doesn't look good. The quality that is.
- Staatz
  
  agreed, the rest looked good though
Xerxexx

In. In. In. In! That was a damn good trailer.
- Anonymous
  
  Agreed, Xerxexx...this film is now on my "need to see" list.
Gaby23

Ok, now we're talking about...this looks AMAZING, EPIC, and wow, Leonardo looks fantastic, too eraly to say anything, but I wouldnt be suprised if he gets the gold man
truong18

wow, that looks amazing.
http://www.facebook.com/gockel Phillip Gockel

Related, they filmed a scene with DiCaprio and Hammer in my friend's kitchen. So incredibly jealous.
Chipper Jones

Eastwood sucks...you suck...EVERYTHING SUCKS
- Xerxexx
  
  Do you suck? Seeing as everything sucks does that mean you suck?
  - Chipper Jones
    
    You just got caught up in a vortex of suck. There is no escape. (SUCKING SOUND)
    - Xerxexx
      
      The Vortex of Suck!? Oh my!
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Nuno-Lopes/100001022192304 Nuno Lopes
  
  That's why boys and girls you shouldn't use drugs...
Film Wizard

Aviator 2
- Anthony
  
  Funny you say that. Cause the piano piece we hear at the beginning is called "Fly," I believe.
- The Douche
  
  I wish they would make a continuation to the aviator, to show when Hughes really went downhill, but I'll take this.
http://www.facebook.com/joseph.kastner Joseph Kastner

"We will never forget our history" ... but we will make stuff up to sell to specific demographics, such as to suggest conclusively that Hoover was gay. This despite the fact that there has been no such evidence to suggest such a thing.
Guest

Geesh, when is Leo going to lighten up for once? I don't know. As much as Leo is a good actor, I can never buy him as a wise, grizzled old man. He's still too baby faced and seems to think if he frowns all the time he'll somehow look older. Plus his voice has never really broke or deepened.
- Anonymous
  
  what about "catch me if you can"? that was a fun, upbeat movie.
  - Xerxexx
    
    I love that movie.
    - Anonymous
      
      me too! hey - i just watched "priest".........a lot of people seemed down on it but i really enjoyed that movie. i loved the enviroments; vampires and stylized fighting. the way it ends; i can't wait for part2!
      - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQoJo81lujk Crapola
        
        I liked Priest too Beevis. It was on some ninja pope shitl.
  - Anonymous
    
    I think Guest's point was in those situations he's good, but as an 'old soul' he never really fits quite right.
- Dales-06
  
  Guest you are indeed correct. It's always the same old from leo; it's quite monotonous now, this always going for the brooding and depressing type of roles. He thinks these roles give him potential Oscar platforms but he is actually limiting himself and we know he is capable of more. He complains he has never won an Oscar and that's why. He needs to mix it up and stop typecasting himself, like for instance look at Colin Farrell where Colin went from Ondine to Horrible Bosses to Fright Night. Now it seems like Leo actually can't do anything besides these sorts of heavy roles. The academy would be more inclined to give him an Oscar if he were to be more versatile in his choosings.
Robert Kessler

This looks absolutely horrible. DiCaprio in latex jowly makeup doing a lousy accent. Poor Clint. I knew him when.
Craig

I don't know what disturbs me more; that they felt the need to add "based on a true story", or that they were probably right about needing to do so.
Ben

There's less and less color in Eastwood's movies... I wanted to be excited for this, but something about the trailer just didn't work for me. I thought the narration at the beginning sounded a little lame. And I'm not exactly sure what to think about the makeup. Might still be good, though.
Unknown

You know, DiCaprio's a good actor and all, but couldn't Eastwood have cast somebody (anybody) that, I don't know, at least looked and/or sounded a LITTLE like J. Edgar Hoover? And maybe it's just me, but I've just NEVER, no matter how hard I've tried, bought Leo as a gangster, a cop undercover as a gangster, a mercenary, or Howard Hughes.
- Truongnquynh
  
  they cast him because people are paying to see him
caesar vice golf chimp

Burn Notice Bitches!!
VVS

ehhh. He sounds like himself in Inception. And acts the same for that matter.
William Forrester

I think Leonardo will surely get a nomination for an Academy Award. I think he’ll get a Oscar nomination at least. He is incredible and he is amazing. And I think he will get it. It’s an incredible performance, just wonderful.
http://twitter.com/darktaxidermist Davide Coppola

My only "compaints" are Leo's mother in the film (can't stand her) and his make up when he's old (somehow doesn't look right). Other than that it looks like an awesome film, definitely Oscar potential.
AeonTown

I think Eastwood is an overrated director and DiCaprio needs to stop playing tortured souls. Changeling + Aviator = boredom.
koos de la rey

This looks gooooood! When Eastwood is gone, Hollywood will be almost totally devoid of genuinely talented film makers. Spielberg hasn't made a good film in decades, and most film makers are, in the main, little more than politically correct hacks these days.
- Jeff
  
  Ah, Spielberg made Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, both fantastic movies, and not "decades" ago. I agree with you about Eastwood, though. He is truly a treasure.
  - Anonymous
    
    agreed. i think "war horse" is going to be great too.
    - rocKKicker
      
      still will have chris nolan...just sayin'
rocKKicker

fantastic trailer. totally on board!
Posthuman

cANt WaIt!!!!!!
JL

I see from the trailer that they are trying to demonstrate a light and dark side of Hoover. I think this would look more appealing to me if they just demonstrated what a villain this man was once he had all this power. I mean, it's fair to show you IF this guy had a lighter side, and it's fair to show how he got to his position, and created this agency, but I don't like my dramas sugar-coated.
Mr. Tibbs

Completely lost me with his horrible voiceover/accent at the beginning.
http://profiles.google.com/snears Nick Sears

How can you NOT want to see this? I'm so in.
- kamish
  
  Being blind I would have no interest...
Ryan

This looks terrible. Same old, oscar hungry Eastwood doing a biopic that'll be as mediocre and bland as Invictus yet get rave reviews. Oh and DiCaprio's accent is so inconsistent.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JEOOYMKTUKVIFHUAYNQ7YOTYLQ Rey

i'm definitely going to watch this movie, even though i hate j edgar hoover for deporting charlie chaplin, what the hell man! chaplin is my hero
- JewAmericano
  
  Chaplin loved under age girls like Polanski. Good riddance.
seph m

Clint Eastwood just handed Leo his first Oscar. #Winning
JewAmericano

So his mom rules him? Was J. Edgar Jewish?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RVOUNUVJBCDRUNZ4Q2L6PROO24 Duane

And so the oscar race has begun. Between this, Ides Of March and The Iron Lady I can't get enough of the oscar campaign. Streep has best actress.. but Leo, Clooney and Gosling so far are thinning out the best actor race.
http://tinyurl.com/commission-killer Barbra Brown

Leonardo DiCaprio will hit this one out of the park.