We have a contender for worst trailer and most ill-conceived movie of the year.

Atlas Distribution has released a trailer for 9/11 starring Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, Luis Guzman and Gina Gershon, centred around the tragic September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

Of course, there's been movies about it before – World Trade Center and United 93, among others – but none of them were as awful as this looks.

preview for 9/11 movie trailer starring Charlie Sheen

9/11 follows five people, including Sheen's Jeffrey Cage, trapped in an elevator in the World Trade Center's North Tower on 9/11, who find themselves having to work together to escape. It looks like Goldberg plays some kind of security guard or communications officer, if you're interested.

And it includes this extraordinary (sarcastic, us?) slow-motion scene as the lift they're in plummets.

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It really looks like a spoof, just the most offensive one you could imagine, and we're not the only ones who think so, as the trailer has got a whole load of people very angry on Twitter, and rightly so.

"Hollywood continues to make movies that are terrible ideas, and a 9/11 movie starring Charlie Sheen has to be the worst one yet," one person wrote, with another adding that the movie is "Extremely Tasteless and Incredibly Unnecessary".

9/11 is being released in US cinemas on 8 September and, bizarrely, in Japanese cinemas on 9 September.

From: Digital Spy