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Earlier this year, acclaimed filmmaker Alex Garland dropped one hell of a surreal war film in the form of A24’s Civil War which told the story of a fictional civil war between an America divided. Acclaimed by some as an unflinching warning of what could happen possibly if we don’t listen to the past, many denounced it as an overblown film delivering little service to entertainment. I, for one, loved the film and Garland’s never back down mode of storytelling and you can read my review here.
Garland is back and now he’s bringing us right back into the fight with a new film that is set during an all too real Iraq war in 2006 for the unflinching Warfare. Garland wanted to make the most authentic war film possible, so he drafted his military supervisor and real-life Iraqi war vet Ray Mendoza to co-write and co-direct the movie with him. What transpires in the new trailer that highlights the immersive experience waiting for viewers when this one hits sometime in 2025. Watch the unbridled heroism and brotherhood on display in the new teaser below!
Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of US forces through insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.
Drawing from Mendoza’s true-life experiences in the trenches, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs) stars as Mendoza himself. He is joined in the cast by Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things), Charles Melton (May December), Kit Connor (Heartstopper), Cosmo Jarvis (Peaky Blinders), Will Poulter (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), Finn Bennett (True Detective: Night Country), Noah Centineo (The Recruit), Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), Taylor John Smith (Where the Crawdads Sing), Adain Bradley (Wrong Turn), Henrique Zaga (The Stand), and Evan Holtzman (Hidden Figures).
Just like the Iraq War film The Outpost, directed by Rod Lurie who is also a veteran, another war film I regard as the most authentic representation of men in war and what it’s like and how they act, Warfare looks to do the same with unnerving battle action set pieces and in your face violence and sheer dread that you won’t forget. What audiences will also get from viewing is the truest sense of what these men go through when the bullets rain down around them and the explosions rock them to the core as they never give up until the last man comes home. This is war straight up with no filter and no forgiveness.
