Watch the Tense First Trailer for Inception Director's New War Movie

Christopher Nolan is best known for his blockbuster comic book and sci-fi movies, with the likes of the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Interstellar making him one of the most successful directors today. His latest film is an epic World War 2 thriller called Dunkirk, and it arrives next summer. A first teaser has been released--check it out below:

The cast included Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, and Cillian Murphy. The film is set in 1940 and focuses upon the plan to rescue 300,000 Allied troops who were trapped on the Dunkirk beaches in France by the German army.

While this is the first proper look at the movie, several on-set images were revealed when production began in May--check them out here.

Dunkirk will be released on July 21, 2017.