First Jackie Robinson Biopic 42 Trailer

The first trailer for director Brian Helgeland’s Jackie Robinson biopic, 42, has been released.

And that’s not all, here is the first teaser poster for the movie as well. So check it out below.

42, from director Brian Helgeland, is the powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

42 stars Harrison Ford as the innovative Dodger’s general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, and Chadwick Boseman as Robinson, the heroic African American who was the first man to break the color line in the big leagues.

The movie which opens April 12th, 2013 also stars Christopher Meloni, Jon Bernthal, Alan Tudyk and John C. McGinley.