Widows film: How to watch the trailer for Steve McQueen's women-led revenge thriller

The plot of Widows follows four women whose lives are upturned by the death of their husbands.

But Widows isn’t solely about grief, or loss, or even intimacy.

In fact, the Steve McQueen helmed action thriller is a story of revenge, criminal activity, and taking fate into your own hands.

You can watch the newest trailer right here at Express.co.uk

The cast for the Widows is broken into sections, not by main, supporting, or cameos but instead by the character itself.

The Widows consist of Viola Davis as Veronica Rawlins, Michelle Rodriguez as Linda, Elizabeth Debicki as Alice, and Cynthia Erivo as Belle.

The Husbands are Liam Neeson as Harry Rawlins, Veronica’s husband, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Linda’s husband, Jon Bernthal as Alice’s husband, and Garret Dillahunt as Belle’s husband.

Then there are the others, Colin Farrell as Tom Mulligan, Jack’s son and a politician that finds himself mixed up in the widows’ plans.

Brian Tyree Henry and Daniel Kaluuya play the debt collectors whose persistence knows no bounds.

Jacki Weaver stars as Alice’s mother, with Robert Duvall as Jack Mulligan, Tom’s father.

The story may be familiar to some, due to the movie being based on the based upon the 1983 ITV series of the same name.

You may also be able to gather the fate of the four husbands based not only on the title but also the trailer.

After the four men die during a heist, it remains up to the women to finish the job and secure their futures.

The movie differs from the TV series in plenty of ways, including the setting.

McQueen’s movie adaptation takes place in Chicago, and while it is decidedly an action movie it is also, as McQueen told Variety, a genre movie.

“I liked the idea of going into a genre, but still having social realism involved.

“Chicago had all the elements that I wanted to investigate, those of race, class, religion, policing… It’s such a fertile narrative environment.

“It has this criminality that goes all the way back to Al Capone,” McQueen said.

The script was co-written by McQueen and Gillian Flynn of Gone Girl fame.

Widows is unique in plenty of ways – its diversity being the major one.

The film offers meaty roles for the main women, three-fourths of whom are women of colour.

Supporting roles are also filled by actors of colour, including Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya.

Not only is it a diverse film, but it is a rare one to feature female heroes (or anti-heroes, or villains depending on your point of view) carrying the big guns.

For all the social boundaries Widows pushes, it is still a commercial outing, but McQueen doesn’t think its Hollywood gloss makes it any less meaningful.

“Commercial means that it’s going to be successful, and I don’t have any idea if that will happen.”

He added: “The only thing I can control is to make a good film.”

Widows is in UK cinemas Tuesday, November 6, 2018.