The three-minute promo teases the upcoming drama’s twin storylines, which detail the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.

Stars Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough, James d’Arcy and Oscar Isaac can all be glimpsed in the trailer, which is set to a dramatic violin and piano score.

W.E. serves as Madonna’s second directorial outing after 2008′s Filth and Wisdom.

The movie’s UK premiere takes place on October 23 in Leicester Square as part of the London Film Festival. It will be released in cinemas in the US on December 9, and in the UK on January 12, 2012.

W.E. first screened at the Venice Film Festival last month, where it was met with mixed reviews from critics.

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First up, the lovely leading ladies addressed the film’s most outrageous moments.

“I think, for me, when we’re on the B-25 bomber plane and we’re being chased by a dragon and I’m shooting at it,” said Vanessa Hudgens, who plays Blondie. “It’s pretty intense.”

“I got to do this really fun green-screen moment where I was being lowered upside down on a harness 40 feet in the air,” Jena Malone, a.k.a. Rocket in the film, explained. “I had to clear out my mag on my UMP [Universal Machine Pistol] while I was shooting all these robots that I was doing a double-flip over in the middle of a bullet train.”

Jamie Chung, who plays Amber, added that part of the fun of working with green screen, particularly a scene in Mecca, was being able to use your imagination. When asked what she pulled from or where she went to prepare for those moments, Chung said she looked to her director.

“Into Zack Snyder’s mind,” she said. “That was the place that I went.”

Emily Browning (Baby Doll) and Abbie Cornish (Sweet Pea) also touted the fight or “dance” sequences as the most unbelievable.

“My favorite thing to watch with my character is probably the first fight scene in Samurai world,” Browning said. “People have said to me, ‘Oh, so were you just standing there and there was a green screen and they made you look like you were jumping?’ I said, ‘No, I was on wires the whole time’ jumping up and doing crazy things. We did almost a month of wirework at the end of the film. That’s pretty cool to see. It’s almost like a character in a video game or something.”

“I definitely do love a lot of the fighting stuff,” Cornish said. “For me the process of filming ‘World War I’ [an action sequence in the film] was incredible, because we all had solo action pieces so we got to indulge in those action pieces.”

Cornish pointed out Snyder’s use of high-speed cameras that were used to slow certain movements and make them stand out more onscreen.

“I love the moments where you see Vanessa’s character flip her tomahawk and then that awesome throw that she does,” she said. “And when Jenna flips her gun in slow motion, I love that stuff.”

“That’s probably the coolest moment,” Browning agreed.

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Jamie started out by explaining the way that costumes helped the girls get into character—and to make the transition as actors from their real-world scenes to the epic dreamworld in which their battle takes place. “We had a lot to play with,” she explained, “with power and strength, but still being really vulnerable. It’s a wide range of different costumes that help put you in a different kind of mood.”

And in some cases, the mood wasn’t good. Jena said of their “institutional” costumes, “We were wearing these gray, drab…frocks! It’s just, like, dirt—you put it on and there’s a weight on your shoulders.”

Although she was quick to add that the depression lifted when the costumes came off: “And the next day we’re wearing these dance warm-up costumes that make you want to stretch and move your legs and move around…and the next day, we’re in our fight uniforms, where it’s like—instantly, you just walk out of your trailer and nobody’s gonna f— with you!”

Of course, it wasn’t just the clothes; to complete their transformations from normal girls to dreamworld warriors, the actresses underwent serious fight training and were spackled with—as Emily pointed out—”a LOT of makeup.”

“It was weird because we went from three months of training—I’d had no makeup on for three months,” she said. “I’d been sweaty and gross and wearing sweatpants…and then I’ve got three pairs of eyelashes on.” And as a testament to how in-character Emily was by the time filming ended, she became so accustomed to her Baby Doll look that she recalled, “At the end of the day, I’d take the eyelashes off and go, ‘Awww.’”

Granted, getting dressed on set took a lot of work—Abbie said that Jena’s fight costume, in particular, was “insane; it was like a corset at the back, and all the layers, and [gestures] right here up to her neck”—but the girls look so bad-ass that…well, we want our own Sucker Punch outfits. And we are leaving the office right now, and we are not coming back until we have purchased fishnet stockings, combat boots and several pairs of leather Lederhosen.

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“I think it’s really important to live in the moment,” she says. “Something I’ve noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It’s all positive thinking.” For example, she says, “I can see (having) a child one day, and so I start to take more care of myself.”

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Vanessa says of the explosive and stylistic film, “It’s just such a wild ride. And I think the entire movie people are just going to be constantly taking hits to the face.”

For his part, Mad Men star Jon promises, “People think that they’re coming for one movie and they get a completely different experience — that’s a sucker punch.”

300 and Watchmen director Zack Snyder once again whips up a frothy mix of vivid action and surreal fantasy as Emily Browning uses her vibrant imagination to attempt an escape after she is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Carla Gugino, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone and Jamie Chung also star.

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The film’s co-star, Abbie Cornish, not only confirmed the possibility of a Venice debut to MTV News, but also revealed the mysterious role Madonna’s daughter, Lourdes, will be playing.

“I heard yesterday,” Cornish told us about Venice, while promoting her upcoming thriller, Limitless. “That’d be amazing.”

W.E follows a Julie & Julia-esque dual story line, one featuring Cornish as a contemporary woman obsessed with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and another focusing on the royal couple itself. News that Lourdes would appear in a small role surfaced last fall, when photos of the teen in a schoolgirl’s uniform popped up online, but until now the nature of her part was unclear. Cornish’s character, it turns out, has a deep connection to that of Lourdes.

“She actually plays a younger version of my character,” Cornish said, adding that because they portray the same person, they never got to share actual screen time. “She’s a super-cute, younger version of my character.”

W.E. marks Madonna’s second feature following Filth and Wisdom, which hit only a handful of theaters in 2008. The new project, the pop star turned filmmaker said last year, has been an obsession of hers even before Filth and Wisdom and took her two-and-a-half years to write. “I made Filth and Wisdom because I realized that I didn’t really have a right to make a bigger film until I made a smaller film — and learned how to make a film,” she said.

According to Cornish, though, the Queen of Pop is a born filmmaker. “Madonna is a natural director,” the actress told us. “It’s in her nature. She’s a Leo and she really represents the Leos very well. She’s a very smart woman, very well read. She really absorbs a lot about whatever she’s involved in. I think she really loves learning. It was interesting to see her evolve throughout the filmmaking process. She’s such a cool woman.”

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