First Images: Zac Efron And Paul Giamatti in JFK Assassination Drama ‘Parkland’

Distributed by Open Road Films "Parkland" is an upcoming JFK Assassination drama film directed by Peter Landesman, and produced by Guy East, Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Nigel Sinclair. It is scheduled to be shown in the main competition section of the 70th Venice International Film Festival and at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Zac Efron, Tom Welling, James Badge Dale, Paul Giamatti, Jacki Weaver, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Bob Thornton, Marcia Gay Harden and Bitsie Tulloch. 

Parkland tells a different story about the assassination of JFK in 1963, focusing on the hospital and the staff that dealt with the tragedy. A series of first look photos have arrived showing Tom Welling as Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman, Zac Efron as Jim Carrico, Paul Giamatti as Abraham Zapruder and Billy Bob Thornton as Forrest Sorrels. Hit the jump to see the first photos from Peter Landesman's Parkland, from USA Today (via The Film Stage): 

Official Synopsis:

"Recounting the chaotic events that occurred in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, Parkland weaves together the perspectives of a handful of ordinary individuals suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances: the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital; Dallas’ chief of the Secret Service; an unwitting cameraman who captured what became the most watched and examined film in history; the FBI agents who nearly had the gunman within their grasp; the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, left to deal with his shattered family; and JFK’s security team, witnesses to both the president’s death and Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s rise to power over a nation whose innocence was forever altered."

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