The Conspirator trailer

April 15

Here's the trailer for the Robert Redford's true life Lincoln era assassination drama, The Conspirator, starring Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Danny Huston, Justin Long, Toby Kebbell and Stephen Root.

Plot: In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy), a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt: her own son, John (Johnny Simmons).