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FX has released the first official trailer for Under the Banner of Heaven, an upcoming crime thriller starring Andrew Garfield in his first small-screen leading role.
Garfield stars as Jeb Pyre, an LDS church elder and local detective who is tasked with investigating the gruesome murder of a young mother that appears to be connected to an affluent Utah family. A devout Mormon all his life, Pyre suddenly finds himself becoming disillusioned as he dives deeper and deeper into the case. The series also stars Normal People's Daisy Edgar-Jones as murder victim Brenda Wright Lafferty, Avatar's Sam Worthington, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Wyatt Russell.
The series is based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer, which chronicles the famous 1984 homicide case Utah v. Lafferty in which the accused cited 'divine revelation' as a reason for murder.
The official trailer gives us a closer look at the series, with sunsets over mountains and wide-open fields depicting a picturesque Utah in 1984. Garfield's Pyre recites a prayer over a montage of grisly crime scene clips before announcing to the public that a woman and her 15-month-old child have been murdered in their home. The news comes as a shock, as the small, tight-knit community is one that doesn't usually lock its doors.
At the end, a visibly shaken Pyre mutters, "This is beyond just a murder. Beyond everything I believe."
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