Roadside Attractions and Saban Films have released the official trailer for Lucky Strike, a war drama inspired by true events that will arrive in theaters on June 26, 2026. The film follows one soldier stranded behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge, armed only with his Motorola SCR-300 radio as he tries to outthink an advancing Nazi Panzer army and make it home.
The release puts a new World War II title on the calendar more than a year before it reaches audiences, and it reteams director Rod Davis Lurie with Scott Eastwood after their 2019 collaboration on The Outpost. Lurie co-wrote the screenplay with Marc Frydman, and the cast also includes Colin Hanks, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Taylor John Smith, Lorne MacFadyen, Daniel Ray Rodriguez, Atanas Srebrev, Alexandra Vale, Jake Lowe and Caroline Piette.
The trailer frames Lucky Strike around an unusual wartime premise: a soldier whose only weapon is a radio that the film describes as new technology that was only battle-ready near the end of the war. That device becomes the center of his survival, as he must rely on wit and spy craft rather than firepower while trapped in one of the fiercest moments of World War II.
Behind the camera, the production brings together producer Marc Frydman with Yariv Lerner, Les Weldon and Jonathan Yunger, while executive producers include Anders Erdén, Lati Grobman, Matthew Helderman, Julie Kroll, Avi Lerner, J.J. Nugent, Trevor Short and Luke Taylor. The creative team includes cinematographer Lorenzo Senatore, editor Christal Khatib, composer Larry Groupé, production designer P. Erik Carlson and costume designer Anna Gelinova.
Lurie said the setting gave the story a clear moral frame, pointing to the certainty of World War II as a backdrop with no ambiguity about the two sides. He said the film kept returning to a different question: not how the soldier survives, but why he survives. The director described John Castle’s journey as one calamity after another and said the answer is the only thing that can keep him alive.
That framing matters because Lucky Strike is not being sold as a battlefield action movie alone. It is built around endurance, identity and the pressure of making it through a war that was still very much undecided at the front lines, even as its larger cause was clear. The trailer suggests the movie will lean on tension born from isolation, not just combat.
Eastwood and Lurie’s earlier pairing on The Outpost gave them a war-film template once before, but Lucky Strike shifts the focus from squad-level combat to a lone soldier’s race to survive with minimal tools. With a June 26, 2026 release date now set, the film’s next step is the audience test: whether this story of one man, one radio and one desperate path home can carry the same weight on screen that it does in the trailer.
