The final months of World War II still left room for chaos, improvisation, and terrifyingly narrow escapes. That is the territory for “Lucky Strike,” a new WWII action thriller from Rod Davis Lurie, which brings the filmmaker back together with Scott Eastwood after their 2020 combat drama “The Outpost.”
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Roadside Attractions and Saban Films will release the film in theaters on June 26, 2026, with Eastwood leading a cast that also includes Colin Hanks, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Taylor John Smith.
Directed by Lurie and written by Lurie and Marc Frydman, “Lucky Strike” is inspired by true events and set during the last major German offensive of WWII, the Battle of the Bulge. The film centers on a soldier trapped behind enemy lines as the Nazi Panzer army advances. With only a Motorola SCR-300 radio—a relatively new piece of battlefield technology near the end of the war—he has to rely on instinct, spy craft, and whatever tactical nerve he can muster to survive and find his way back home.
The project also reunites Lurie, Frydman, and Eastwood after “The Outpost,” a similarly contained, pressure-cooker war film that focused on soldiers holding a remote American outpost in Afghanistan against overwhelming odds. Here, the scale shifts to WWII, but the setup still gives Lurie a familiar dramatic engine: a soldier cut off, outmatched, and forced to think his way through a situation that could collapse at any moment.
“Lucky Strike” opens in theaters on June 26, 2026. Watch the trailer below.
