The Conspirator Movie Trailer

Robert Redford directs The Conspirator, a dramatic retelling of the tragic events surrounding the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln. James McAvoy and Robin Wright head up the cast. Check out the trailer and see what you think:

The Conspirator stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Evan Rachel Wood and Tom Wilkinson, and is set to hit theaters on April 15, 2011.

The Conspirator Plot:

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.