Newest 'Foxcatcher' Trailer Released: Oscar Buzz For Steve Carell, '40-Year-Old Virgin' Actor 'Gives Hope To America'

Steve Carell fans are in for what looks to be the actor's darkest role yet. Today marks the third trailer for his latest film "Foxcatcher" which also stars "Magic Mike" hunk Channing Tatum. The film has been generating quite a bit of buzz since the rave reviews from its debut at the Cannes Film Festival. Particularly, some are already calling Steve Carell a frontrunner for the Best Actor Academy Award as he harnesses the eery patriotism of Olympic wrestling trainer John du Pont.

According to Indiewire, "‘Foxcatcher' recounts du Pont's strange obsession with financing the brothers' [Dave and Mark Schultz] career and eventually becoming a major wrestling sponsor even as he exhibited continuing signs of instability."

As Screenrant reports, "those who are already familiar with the story of millionaire John du Pont and Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz will already know that" "Foxcatcher," "won't be a happy-go-lucky kind of sports movie. Those who saw Carell's name attached and were hoping for something along the lines of Cool Runnings should probably look elsewhere." For the rest of us who were too young or don't remember, we're in for what might be Carell's most shocking onscreen role yet.

In the new trailer in question, the "Little Miss Sunshine" actor is featured giving a creepy inspirational speech. "I'm giving the men a dream and I'm giving America hope," he explains as he stoically sits across from an interviewer. In other circumstances, Carell would seem jovial but this time he's got the icy demeanor of a long lived psychopath.

So far though "Foxcatcher" has been well received. Entertainment Weekly recently stated that "both Carell and Tatum, who buck public perceptions of their respective images in the movie, wowed critics when the film premiered at Cannes, and both have choruses of Oscar buzz that will likely only grow as the films screens at more festivals. It will hit Telluride, Toronto and New York in the coming months."

"Foxcatcher" will have its theatrical release this November.