Optimum Releasing have released the first trailer for Brighton Rock, an adaptation of Graham Greene’s murder novel.

Directed by Rowan Joffe, Brighton Rock stars Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren, John Hurt and Andy Serkis.

Brighton Rock charts the headlong fall of Pinkie (Riley), a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

Watch the trailer below:

Brighton Rock will hit cinemas in the UK on February 4, 2011.