Official 12 STRONG Trailer Watch the official 12 STRONG trailer! The film, directed by Nicolai Fuglsig, stars Chris Hemsworth, Elsa Pataky, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Rob Riggle, Trevante Rhodes, and Austin Stowell. 12 STRONG will be released in theaters on January 19, 2018. The True Story of the Army’s Special Forces “Green Berets”, who within weeks responded to the 9-11 attack. Green Berets and AFSOC took over the country and allowed other Special Forces and the rest of the conventional military to begin the real war.