After Civil WarAlex Garland continues with the war in the film Warfare co-directed with Ray Mendoza and a dream Hollywood cast.
Alex Garland seems to have decided to continue productions both as screenwriter and director since the release of Men in 2022. The Briton has indeed returned to service alongside Danny Boyle (and Nia Da Costa) to write 28 years later (scheduled for June 2025) and 28 Years Later Part II : The Bone Temple and thus relaunch the cult zombie saga. Even more, he continued to work on his more personal projects as a director with Civil War and now Warfare.
This war film is co-directed and co-written with Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza. The mystery being great since Warfare was only revealed in a poster where we discovered a soldier with his face covered in dust, earth and generally in a bad state, suggesting a violent and brutal war film. A24 has now revealed the trailer and it seems like quite a mission awaits us.
MODERN WARFARE
“It’s war, in real time and without filter”this is the promise made by the trailer for Warfare and it’s difficult not to be quickly taken in by the atmosphere with these first images. The trailer indeed projects us into the heart of a group of Navy SEALs calmly observing a house of Iraqis, their slightest movements… before chaos erupts violently. In just a few seconds, the action takes over and the environment plunges the soldiers into the middle of smoke, bullets, blood and explosions.
Behind his political statement, Civil War was already an impressive war film during certain moments of bravery, including its climax at the gates of the White House. This last act in Washington DC thrust the characters into the heart of the military conflict in near real time with captivating realism. These scenes were notably led by Ray Mendoza, as a military advisor on the film. Seen this trailer now, this is therefore a priori what fully awaits us for Warfare at a higher speed and in an even more immersive way.
The images in any case recall, without too many surprises, some of the sequences of Minesweepers by Kathryn Bigelow, where tension suffocated the protagonists. The Oscar-winning film was based at the time on the testimonies of soldiers recorded by screenwriter Mark Boal, here, Warfare is apparently “based on the memory” of Ray Mendoza in particular and his experience on the Iraqi ground. The actor D’pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, seen in Reservation Dogsalso embodies his character.
With Will Poulter, Charles Melton, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor (Heartstopper), Noah Centineo, Michael Gandolfini and Joseph Quinn, young Hollywood is in any case invested in this visceral project. For now, Warfare has no set release date, but it will arrive in theaters in 2025. Strongly.
