Kirsten Dunst, Wagna Moura and Nick Offerman don’t need your civil war in an apocalyptic trailer for Alex Garland’s action epic. More below…
It looks like A24 weren’t kidding when they said they were looking to move into the action genre.
According to The Wrap, executives at the company spent this summer shopping around for “action and big IP projects”. They might have greenlit Alex Garland’s new war movie back in 2022, but from the look of the film’s first trailer, that transition into more mainstream fare seems well underway.
Check out the first Civil War trailer below:
Set in a near-future USA, the film finds a group of journalists journeying across a country tearing itself apart after 19 states secede from the union. The country’s fascist President, played by Nick Offerman, responds to the violence by ordering air strikes on his country’s citizens, and everything seems to go a bit pear-shaped from there.
With Kirsten Dunst, Wagna Moura and Stephen McKinley Henderson leading the cast, Civil War serves as Garland’s follow-up to last year’s Men, and couldn’t look like a different scale of film. A24 are releasing Civil War on the 26th of April 2024, including on IMAX screens – a real rarity for the distributor better known for off-kilter horror and indie fare (2023’s Beau Is Afraid got a limited release in IMAX, hampered slightly by a competitive Spring movie market in the States).
The film also looks like a surprising step up for Garland, the writer-director behind intimate sci-fi thought-pieces Ex Machina and Annihilation (yes, Annihilation had a few guns and gribbly bits in it, but nothing on this scale). With such a provocative (and worryingly plausible) premise, though, it looks like his fondness for a bit of allegory is largely intact.
UPDATE: Very excitingly, we’ve just been told the film is getting a simultaneous release in the US and the UK – a real rarity for A24 projects, which can often take upwards of a few months to make the jump over the Atlantic. Entertainment Film Distributors are handling the cinema release over here.
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