Watch The Trailer For The JFK Assassination Drama PARKLAND Starring Zac Efron

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In another world, Alex Cox would have directed this movie based off of his own book The President and the Provocateur. But alas, we’ll have to settle for what looks to be a rather earnest, non-Cox (and non-Oliver Stone), version of the JFK assassination.

Directed by Peter Landesman from his screenplay, the film boosts a massive acting ensemble including Zac Efron, Billy Bob Thornton, Marcia Gay Harden, and Paul Giamatti as Abraham Zapruder. There are about a dozen or so other actors you’ll know very well in this movie, too.

I have no real gauge for how good or bad this movie may be because Landesman is making his feature debut here. It’s a tough topic to get right, and it looks an awful lot like Emilio Estevez’s Bobby, a film about the assassination of JFK’s brother Robert Kennedy. (That movie just didn’t work.)

Still, this nicely cut trailer should be enough to get history porn buffs in the seats.

Parkland opens Oct. 4, 2013.