A24’s Bloody Combat Film ‘Warfare’ Gets Veterans Screening in Hollywood With Charles Melton, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film Writer A year after Alex Garland stirred the American political pot with his dystopian drama “Civil War,” the British director introduced a different kind of combat movie to an audience of U.S.
veterans on Wednesday night in Hollywood. A real-time account of a harrowing 2006 mission in Iraq, the film from Garland and co-director Ray Mendoza screened for the first time at the American Legion Post 43 – a legendary VA house on Highland Ave.
erected in 1919 , built by WWI vets and their supporters entering the motion picture business. Mendoza participated in and survived the operation at the center of “Warfare,” which follows 13 Navy SEALs holed up in an apartment building in Ramadi, about 70 miles west of Baghdad.
A meticulous on-screen recreation of their mission recruited some of the most promising young talent in Hollywood for its ensemble cast, including Charles Melton, “Reservation Dogs” breakout D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Kit Connor, Joseph Quinn, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis and Michael Gandolfini. “This hasn’t been Hollywood-ed up,” said Justin Garza, a filmmaker from the Warrior Heritage Foundation who introduced the film.
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