Watch the first trailer for Alex Garland’s new movie ‘Civil War’
The first trailer has arrived for Ex Machina director Alex Garland‘s upcoming movie Civil War, which is set to arrive in cinemas in the United Kingdom on April 26th, 2024.
In addition to directing the film, Garland also wrote the script for Civil War. The movie, which is being distributed in the UK by Entertainment Film Distributors, stars Kirsten Dunst, who portrays a journalist in the not-so-distant future as 19 states in the United States break away from the Union.
This chain of events causes societal fraction, with areas such as the Western Forces and the Florida Alliance finding themselves in civil conflict. Additionally, Nick Offerman plays the President of the United States, who is responsible for air strikes on these territories.
In the trailer, Dunst’s character is seen desperately trying to reach Washington and states: “Every time I survived a war zone, I thought I was sending a warning home: don’t do this.” The film also stars Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Sonoya Mizuno.
The official synopsis for Garland’s forthcoming movie reads: “A race to the White House in a near-future America balanced on the razor’s edge.”
Speaking to Screen Daily in 2022, Garland said of the upcoming motion picture: “Well, in the same way that you could say Ex Machina is sci fi, Devs is a tech thriller and Men is a horror film, Civil War is a war movie – a contemporary war movie. It was a staggeringly difficult film to shoot. I wrapped five weeks ago, and I’ve been in the edit for the last five weeks.”
He added: “We’re trying to get the film in a rough cut state where everything is broadly what one is intending. But, as well as that, there’s a lot of visual effects in the movie so we’re having to decide which shots were turning over as VFX shots. It’s a very technical, non-stop process at the moment. There’s a lot going on.”
Watch the first trailer for Civil War below.
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