Reliance Ent to release war thriller '1917' on Jan 17 in India

New Delhi: Anil Ambani led Reliance Entertainment is all set to release DreamWorks Pictures'  war thriller '1917' on January 17, 2020, in India. The film is directed by Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of 'Skyfall', 'Spectre' and 'American Beauty'.

'1917' tells the story of two young British soldiers at the height of the war starring George MacKay as Lance Corporal Schofield and Dean-Charles Chapman as Lance Corporal Blake who are given a seemingly impossible task to deliver a message deep in the heart of enemy territory that, if successful, would potentially save the lives of 1,600 British soldiers. For Blake, the assignment is deeply personal; his brother is one of the 1,600 men who will die if they fail.  

''I was always fascinated by the Great War, perhaps because my grandfather told me about it when I was very young, and perhaps also because at that stage of my life, I'm not sure I'd even registered the concept of war before,'' Mendes says.