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Waiting For The Barbarians trailer: Johnny Depp plays a sinister Colonel in the colonial drama that also stars Mark Rylance and Robert Pattinson

By KEVIN KAYHART FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

The trailer for the new colonial drama film -- Waiting For The Barbarians -- dropped on Wednesday.

Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson and Mark Rylance are among the star-studded cast for the period piece that marks Columbian filmmaker Ciro Guerra's English-language directorial debut.

Based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the story centers on an unnamed magistrate who lives in an unnamed colonial outpost of a large empire who begins to question where his loyalties truly lie with the arrival of the sinister Colonel Joll, played by Depp.

Academy Award-winner Rylance plays the magistrate who's looking forward to an easy retirement.

But that all gets placed on the back-burner when rumors surface that the area's indigenous people, called Barbarians by the colonists, might be preparing to attack the town.

Led by Depp's Colonel Joll, the regime's army gets deployed to the town, and begin a series of ruthless interrogations following the capture of Barbarians.

Some of them are tortured or killed as the army regime prepares for a larger campaign.

The drama film also stars Robert Pattinson, 34, as an officer who's more than willing to bend to Colonel Joll's regime in the fictional Empire.

The cast also includes Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Sam Reid Bill Milner, Harry Melling and Gana Bayarsaikhan as the character known as The Girl, a Barbarian girl who gets nursed back to health by the Magistrate.

After enjoying success in the theater world, Rylance, 60, has transitioned to the role of Hollywood film star, having won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for 2016's Bridge Of Spies.

Depp, 57, has been been nominated for three Academy Awards For Best Actor during his acclaimed career that started back in the mid-80s.

Guerra is best known for directing and co-writing the 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent, which went on to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 888th Academy Awards.

Waiting For The Barbarians first debuted at the Venice Film Festival in September 2019, and is now set to make its premiere on August 7.

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