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Clint Eastwood points a stern finger at FBI investigators and the media in the first trailer for his new fact-based drama "Richard Jewell," which explores the security guard who reported finding an explosive device at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics — and then was falsely accused of planting it himself.

"They want to fry you," Sam Rockwell, as Jewell's attorney, tells him as the scene suggests that FBI agents and the media pushed a false narrative of his culpability.

Paul Walter Hauser ("I, Tonya") stars as Jewell, joined by Kathy Bates as his mother, Jon Hamm as the lead FBI investigator and Olivia Wilde as Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs.





Eastwood directed from a screenplay by Oscar nominee Billy Ray ("Captain Phillips"), based on the Vanity Fair article "American Nightmare — The Ballad of Richard Jewell" by Marie Brenner. Eastwood also produced under his Malpaso banner, alongside Tim Moore, Jessica Meier, Kevin Misher, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson and Jonah Hill.

The film arrives in theaters December 13.

Watch the trailer above.