Hugh Jackman Is ‘The Greatest Showman’ in First Trailer for Circus Musical (Video)
Zac Efron and Michelle Williams co-star film about P.T. Barnum, which opens Christmas day
Nigel M. Smith | June 28, 2017 @ 6:24 AM
Last Updated: June 28, 2017 @ 10:21 AM
After tearing up the screen in “Logan,” Hugh Jackman will next be seen donning his dancing shoes for the musical “The Greatest Showman,” in which he stars as P.T. Barnum — the man behind the game-changing Barnum & Bailey Circus. 20th Century Fox released the trailer for the potential awards player on Wednesday.
Zac Efron, Zendaya and Michelle Williams star alongside Jackman in the rags-to-riches story, that’s been seven years in the making and features original songs from “La La Land’s” Oscar-winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The film takes place in the mid-1800s, but their contributions are said to have a modern sensibility as teased in the trailer.
For Jackman, “The Greatest Showman” marks his first on-screen musical since 2012’s “Les Misérables.” Williams last sang on Broadway as Sally Bowles in “Cabaret,” while Efron honed his musical chops in the “High School Musical” trilogy, as well as 2007’s “Hairspray,” alongside John Travolta.
Zendaya, who stars in this summer’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” also features in the trailer as a trapeze artist.
“The Greatest Showman” marks Michael Gracey’s directorial debut; the script comes from Bill Condon (“Dreamgirls”) and Jenny Bicks (“Sex and the City”).
Watch the first trailer above. “The Greatest Showman” opens Christmas Day.
27 'Logan' Characters Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)
Most of the mutants in the world of "Logan" are dead, and the ones that remain are broken and sad. They also make up the cast of the best superhero movie yet made. Here's the 27 most important characters gracing the final story of Hugh Jackman's take on the Wolverine, ranked.
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27. Mohawk Reaver (Krzysztof Soszynski) Seems this nameless member of the Reavers mercenary band was not properly briefed on what he'd be dealing with today. As a result, Laura cuts his head off, carries it outside, and offers it back to Pierce in the movie's most bad-ass moment. So he's useful for supplying Laura with awesome material, but not much else.
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22-26. The guys stripping Logan's car Logan's first victims of the movie. These guys had it coming when they responded to a friendly limo driver politely asking them not to steal his wheels with a shotgun blast. They also had no respect for the request not to shoot at the trunk, where Logan's suit was kept.
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21. Dr. Rice (Richard E. Grant) Zander Rice is the Alkali Transigen scientist responsible for the X-23 and X-24 projects, and he thinks that makes him a big deal. Logan takes him out before he can even give his big "we're not so different, you and I" speech, which makes him pretty much nothing but a heel.
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17-20. The Reavers Logan murders in the casino hotel These guys had some tragic exits from the mortal coil. When Professor Xavier's seizure renders them unable to move, they get to watch in abject terror as Logan slowly stalked toward them and then stabbed them all in the brains. It'd be sad if they didn't have it coming for choosing to be bad guys.
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16. Caliban (Stephen Merchant) Logan is pretty mean to Caliban despite him being nice enough to risk his life every day in caring for Professor X. Still, Caliban's willingness to stick around and his sacrifice for his friends makes him a good dude, even if he doesn't have much to do but be an off-screen victim.
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15. X-24 (Hugh Jackman) Take away all of Logan's brooding character development and person anguish and you have this guy. X-24 is all rage and claws. Not only are his rage-induced superviolent rampages fun to watch, watching his body get grossly ruined and then heal himself is perversely satisfying.
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14. Donald Pierce (Boyd Holbrook) The cyborg leader of the Reavers has a certain ruthless charm. He's mostly just a hired gun who follows orders, and he'd be a little more interesting with some more motivations. Still, he makes a pretty good Darth Vader as he hunts Logan.
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13. Gabriela (Elizabeth Rodriguez, who for some reason is not in any "Logan" marketing materials!) Gabriela and the other nurses took care of the X-23 test subject kids at Transigen. When the company wanted to murder the children, the nurses risked their lives to save them. Gabriela doesn't make it to Eden, but she was braver and more selfless than just about anyone else in the movie.
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10-12. The Munsons (Eriq La Salle, Elise Neal, Quincy Fouse) A hard-working farm family in middle America, fighting the local corporate d-bags who want to run them off their land. Their end is completely undeserved and super tragic, but they're cool folks before they go. They almost could have been the protagonists of their own non-superhero drama.
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4-9. Child mutants Alkali Transigen hoped to turn these kids into mind-controlled monsters, and instead they just became kids who can do cool things -- such as murder the main bad guy with the earth itself.
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3. Logan (Hugh Jackman Through eight other movies, the man known as Wolverine has basically endured nothing but pain, tragedy, loss and immortality. It finally all catches up with him, but at least Old Man Logan gets a murdery, R-rated chance at redemption, and it's an absolutely phenomenal way to send him off.
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2. Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) Sarcastic nonagenarian Professor X is obviously the best Professor X. He takes no bull from Logan, teaches Laura a thing or two, and is generally the movie's comic relief with his ornery old man ways.
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1. Laura/X-23 (Dafne Keen) Coolest mutant kid ever. Laura is insanely deadly, transitioning from being a regular kid to a feral murder machine and back again. She learns the value of life and family through stabbing bad guys. Give this kid an Oscar.
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The final movie of the Hugh Jackman Wolverine era is here, and it’s full of complex characters
Most of the mutants in the world of "Logan" are dead, and the ones that remain are broken and sad. They also make up the cast of the best superhero movie yet made. Here's the 27 most important characters gracing the final story of Hugh Jackman's take on the Wolverine, ranked.
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