Hulu’s Catch-22 Teaser Trailer Released

In late 2017, it was announced that George Clooney was going to direct and star in a TV adaptation of Joseph Heller’s classic novel Catch-22. The show was later picked up by Hulu who will air it on it’s streaming site. If you’re a fan of the original novel and have been looking forward to this adaptation then you’ll be pleased to learn that the first teaser trailer has been released, and it all looks very promising.

Set to premiere this Spring, on May 17, Catch-22 stars Christopher Abbott as Yossarian, a young bombardier desperately trying to find a way out of the war. Kyle Chandler portrays Colonel Cathcart, George Clooney is Scheisskopf, and Hugh Laurie plays Major de Coverley. The show will consist of six episodes directed by Clooney along with Grant Heslov and Ellen Kuras.

The trailer description reads: “Christopher Abbott is Yossarian, a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is “to come down alive”. His odds of success at such a simple aim keep getting worse, because Colonel Cathcart (Kyle Chandler) keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. More than the retreating Germans, the real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn. The pinnacle of this is Catch-22, a military by-law which states that if you fly your missions, you’re crazy, and don’t have to fly them; all you have to do is ask. But if you ask not to, then you’re sane, and so you have to fly them. George Clooney stars as the barking mad, parade-obsessed Scheisskopf. Hugh Laurie is the mellow, slightly checked-out Major de Coverley. Clooney directs the six-episode series, along with Grant Heslov and Ellen Kuras.”