The trailer for Lions for Lambs, set for release November 9 through MGM, is up and running, and thankfully gone is the awful music from its first pass, in teaser form. It doesn't look like quite Frank "T.J." Mackey territory for Tom Cruise, but he is playing another silver-tongued aggressor, this time a hot-shit U.S. Senator. (Anyone else think Cruise could topline the David Vitter story if he so chose?) It's no great fleshing out of the narrative, particularly. In fact, with Robert Redford barking, "Rome is burning, son," and the trailer's hammering home of terrorism being "the quintessential question of our time," Lions for Lambs is certainly going to no significant lengths to sell itself to the hoi polloi; right now it's The Charlie Rose Show and Meet the Press crowd or bust. Watch for at least a bit of a narrative expansion of sorts in probably about a month or six weeks.