Justin Kurzel directs The Order, about an FBI agent trying to stop a US domestic terrorist group. Here’s the first trailer.

If we told you that Jude Law’s next film would see him play a ‘tenacious FBI agent hunting down a neo-Nazi terrorist group,’ your curiosity would want to know more, wouldn’t it? Crikey, hope so. We’ve done 300 words or so here, and we need the clicks.

And if we then told you that the film’s bad guys ‘had been behind a recent string of bank robberies and car heists in order to finance an armed uprising against the US government,’ (that’s according to The Hollywood Reporter’s synopsis) you’d probably think that sounded worth scrolling down a bit and clicking on an advert or something.

In fact though, the upcoming film is based on true events that occurred in 1980s Washington State, with Law’s erm, lawman, agent Terry Husk being the only one who believes that a string of robberies isn’t just the work of some small-time crooks, but instead the careful plotting of a domestic terrorist group looking to spark a race war to topple the government.

It all sounds pretty interesting and when you consider that Nicholas Hoult is lining up opposite Law.

Justin Kurzel directs and while his forays into more mainstream fare with 2016’s Assassin’s Creed didn’t end particularly well, there’s always something interesting about his more personal projects.

From the kinetic style of The True History Of The Kelly Gang to the haunting beauty of Macbeth‘s production design, Kurzel’s films tend to have have something to commend them, and we’re hopeful that absorbing subject matter and the twin talents of Law and Hoult make this a project of note.

Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver and Marc Maron co-star, with the film set for release on 6th December in the US. Here’s that first trailer below.