Whiskey Tango Foxtrot trailer: Margot Robbie and Tina Fey star in Afghanistan war comedy

Paramount has released the first trailer for Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a comedy produced by and starring Tina Fey based on journalist Kim Barker’s 2011 memoir The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Already being described as “Liz Lemin in Kabul”, it looks from the trailer to involve Fey’s trademark style of humour, but transplanted out of middle-class New York and into a war zone.

It sees her play a foreign correspondent reporting in Afghanistan and Pakistan during Operation Enduring Freedom, where she develops a weird relationship with a fellow journalist played by Martin Freeman (who for some reason isn’t the trailer much - Margot Robbie, unsurprisingly, is featured heavily).

Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are directing, and the screenplay comes from Fey’s frequent collaborator Robert Carlock.

Billy Bob Thornton and Alfred Molina also star, in a film that - in the age of outrage - could prove controversial given its comedic take on serious subject matter.

Earlier in the month we got a trailer for Fey’s next film Sisters, which co-stars Amy Poehler.