Jessica Chastain pushes for gun control in ‘Miss Sloane’

EW premiered the sneak peek, which sees Chastain as Elizabeth Sloane, a lobbyist who risked her career by attacking the gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Since Miss Sloane has Jessica Chastain as a lobbyist doing battle against the gun industry, it certainly sounds like one of the more hot button films of the fall.

Miss Sloane teams Chastain with director John Madden, who previously made stuff like Shakespeare in Love, The Debt, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and an extremely popular line of football video games.

Below, watch the Miss Sloane trailer.

This wouldn’t be the first time that Chastain and Madden have collaborated on a project before.

“The central character might be familiar to audiences had that person been a man”. “In this case, it’s a woman and the movie is totally framed around that character”.

Also starring Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Lithgow and Sam Waterston among others, the movie is set for a December 9 release in the U.S. Her matter-of-fact delivery helps create a tension in the trailer that, maybe, some fans wouldn’t expect from a film with this story; it’s easy to imagine the dry, pandering version of this movie, but this trailer isn’t selling this film.

The first moment I read the script [for Miss Sloane] I thought that the role belonged to Jessica. The film is likely going to play both sides equally, but still, we know.