FIRST LOOK: Steven Speilberg' Munich

The Hollywood Bureau is proud to give you your first look at the one-sheet teaser art for Steven Spielberg's next film, Munich.

Three-time Academy Award®-winning director-producer Steven Spielberg directs Munich, an historical thriller set in the aftermath of the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Munich recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre -- and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it.

Eric Bana (Troy) stars as the Mossad agent charged with leading the band of specialists brought together for this operation. Inspired by actual events, the narrative is based on a number of sources, including the recollections of some who participated in the events themselves. The script is the first feature film written by Tony Kushner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award and many other awards for his epochal Broadway drama Angels in America as well as its Emmy Award-winning adaptation for HBO.

The film is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Barry Mendel, Spielberg and Colin Wilson. The international cast also includes Daniel Craig (Layer Cake), Geoffrey Rush (Shine), Mathieu Kassovitz (Birthday Girl), Hanns Zischler (Walk on Water) and Ciarán Hinds (Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera).

Munich hits theaters on December 23rd, 2005.

UPDATE: 11/30/05 The Los Angeles Times reported today that the December 23rd premiere of Steven Speilberg's Munich will not be accompanied by the usual news conferences, talk-show appearances and print interviews that ordinarily attend the release of a major film. Marvin Levy, Spielberg's personal publicist, told the newspaper that the director "wants everybody not to have preconceptions, to see the movie and make up their own minds."