Amelia Trailer is Take off

Fox Searchlight Pictures have released the first trailer for Mira Nair’s biopic drama about legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

Providing an idea of how the drama movie will look like, this promotional video also presents Hilary Swank as Amelia, Richard Gere as Amelia’s husband, George P. Putnam, and Ewan McGregor as Amelia’s lover, Gene Vidal.

Based on a script written by Ronald Bass, “Amelia” chronicles the rise to fame of this American aviation pioneer who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean. In addition to the story of author and women’s rights advocate attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937, it also details Amelia’s rocky relationship with her husband George P. Putnam.

Fox Searchlight will distribute it in U.S. October 23.