Burns & Co. has released the teaser trailer for the biographical drama Jimmy [JIMYS] starring KJ Apa as Jimmy Stewart. The legendary actor interrupted his Hollywood career to join the military and fight in World War II. Directed by Aaron Burns, Jimmy opens in theaters on November 6, 2026.
JIMMY, the untold true story of America’s most-beloved actor and the iconic role that saved him, focuses on the most transformative season in Jimmy Stewart’s life—from winning the Academy Award® for Best Actor in The Philadelphia Story to enlisting and becoming a combat pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the beginning of World War II. He flew twenty missions over Europe, rising to the rank of colonel by the end of the war, only to return home broken and disheartened. Then George Bailey and It’s a Wonderful Life came calling…