Which brings us to upcoming effort The Battle Of Sevastopol, which plays to the previously established formula with a couple of notable wrinkles. This is a grand scale war picture, yes, blending high end CGI with large scale practical battle sequences for massive effect but it also weaves in a strong romantic element with a female soldier as a key character in an element clearly meant to broaden the audience.
And then there are the politics ...
Sevastopol, for those unaware, is a key city in the Crimean peninsula. And Crimea, of course, became the center of a major conflict between Ukraine and Russia earlier this year when unmarked Russian forces infiltrated the Ukrainian controlled territory to foment and aid in a rebellion which has since expanded to Russian forces pressing into other territories in the east of Ukraine. Given production timelines of a film on this scale there is virtually no way at all that producers could have known what was going to happen in the actual territory when they began production on the film but the marketing of a very much pro-Russia, we're the protectors of Sevastopol film against the backdrop of a real life Russian invasion of that same territory becomes laced with all sorts of new meaning.
You can take a look at the trailer below.