Sweet Poster Art for In the Loop

Looks like the IFC folks and filmmaker Armando Iannucci are making the most out of a Tribeca Film Festival showing, supporting the movie early on with some poster art eye candy (retro fit) which eventually comes out July 24th. Following in the not so original, but politically-minded “HOPE” teaser posters, is the final poster premiere which accompanied Iannucci’s recollections of a trip down in Washington – read here. I would not have signalled out the poster if it didn’t grab my attention, and the following synopsis below, we get an idea of how scrambled the lines of communication become when the chain of command is lead by the incompetent.

How do you like the one sheet?

Written by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, the US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war, but not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. US General Miller (James Gandolfini) doesn’t think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander). After Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one (Chris Addison) can sleep with the right intern (Anna Chlumsky), and if they can both stop the Prime Minister’s chief spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war. If they don’t…well, they can always sack their Director of Communications Judy (Gina McKee), who they never liked anyway and who’s back home dealing with voters with blocked drains and a man who’s angry about a collapsing wall (Steve Coogan).