Academy Award winner filmmaker Steve McQueen and writer Gillian Flynn (author of Gone Girl) team up to give the audience a gripping intense action thriller in “Widows” starring a heavyweight cast – Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Jon Bernthal, Daniel Kaluuya and Brian Tyree Henry. 20th Century Fox has just released its official trailer: Four women take matters into their own hands when their husbands unexpectedly perished with unfinished criminal activities in “Widows”. Hunted by their late husbands’ client who pressed on the responsibility of paying the debt their husbands left, the characters of Davis, Rodriguez, Debicki and Erivo join forces to outwit the crime lords preying on them and move on with their own terms. Writers Guild of America nominee Gillian Flynn pens a script with Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave), who also directs “Widows”. Buckle up for a stirring brain and brawn thrille...

From Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption: “Widows" is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Oscar® winner Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms. “Widows" also stars Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Daniel Kaluuya and Brian Tyree Henry. "Widows" will open on December 5 in cinemas from 20th Century Fox. Check out its trailer: