VICE Trailer Debut Check out the first VICE trailer! The film, written and directed by Adam McKay (The Big Short , Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues), stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons, Shea Whigham, Alison Pill, Eddie Marsan, Tyler Perry, Justin Kirk, and Sam Rockwell. VICE will be released in theaters on December 25. VICE explores how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today.