Will Smith Dismissed by NFL in 'Concussion' First Trailer
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Dr. Bennet Omalu (Smith) is a neuropathologist who discovers the effect of post-concussion syndrome on football players and is dismissed by the organization when he wants to reveal the truth.

AceShowbiz - The first trailer for Will Smith's National Football League drama "Concussion (2015)" has arrived. Based on the true story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the film follows a man discovering the connection between the brain trauma in football players and the sport itself.

Smith stars as Omalu, a brilliant forensic neuropathologist who makes the first discovery of CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). He claims that the disease is a kind of a brain trauma that can give terrible physical and psychological effects to its victims. It usually happens following a concussion, a damage to the brain that makes people lose consciousness after getting hit in the head.

Although he is dismissed by the organization, Omalu still fights for the truth to be known. "If you continue to deny my work, men continue to die," Omalu says to someone behind the NFL.

The film is largely inspired by Omalu's research into suicides among retired professional football players. Back in December 2012, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend, who was also the mother of their child, before he committed suicide. Earlier that year, former San Diego Chargers linebacker Junior Seau shot himself in the chest. The two men both suffered from post-concussion syndrome.

Smith stars in the movie alongside Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Albert Brooks and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Peter Landesman writes the script and directs the film while Ridley Scott, Giannina Facio, David Wolthoff, Larry Shuman and Elizabeth Cantillon produce. The dramatic thriller will hit U.S. theaters on December 25.

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