'Out Of The Furnace' Trailer: Christian Bale Dives Right Into The Fire

Here's the trailer for Out of the Furnace, the new film from Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper. The film features Christian Bale as a Pennsylvania steelworker whose brother (Casey Affleck) gets in trouble with a backwoods but powerful criminal (Woody Harrelson). The rest of the supporting cast is impressive, with Zoe Saldana, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, and Sam Shepard playing big roles, all of which are given a few moments here.

This trailer is solid. In fact, just so long as you're willing to have Pearl Jam's 'Release' in your head for the rest of the day, I think it's a pretty terrific trailer, and one that will set the movie up as a must-see for a lot of people who might not have known what to expect before now.

Out of the Furnace opens on November 27, with an expansion planned for December 6. Apple has the trailer.

Russell Baze (Christian Bale) works a dead-end job at the local steel mill, as his terminally ill father did before him.  When Russell's brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) returns home from serving time in Iraq, he gets lured into one of the most ruthless crime rings in the Northeast and mysteriously disappears. The police fail to crack the case, so – with nothing left to lose – Russell takes matters into his own hands, putting his life on the line to seek justice for his brother. Sometimes your battles choose you.