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Keira Knightley Reveals OFFICIAL SECRETS In First Trailer For Gavin Hood's Political Thriller

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First look at the new thriller from the director of Eye in the Sky.


With his previous film, 2015's Eye in the Sky, director Gavin Hood created a tense thriller that exposed the murky world of the war on terror.

Hood is further exploring this theme with his latest, Official Secrets, which stars Keira Knightley as a translator who leaks confidential emails in the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Matt Smith, Matthew Goode and Ralph Fiennes also star.

Official Secrets is in UK cinemas October 18th.

Check out the UK trailer below.


The official synopsis reads:

In 2003, as politicians in Britain and the US angle to invade Iraq, GCHQ translator Katharine Gun leaks a classified e-mail that urges spying on members of the UN Security Council to force through the resolution to go to war. Charged with breaking the Official Secrets Act, and facing imprisonment, Katharine and her lawyers set out to defend her actions. With her life, liberty and marriage threatened, she must stand up for what she believes in…