Alex Garland & U.S. Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza’s A24 Film ‘Warfare’ Is “Unfiltered And Unflinching And Just Truthful”
deadline.comIt seems only right that a crowd of veterans were the first to see Warfare, U.S. Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza’s feature directorial debut, co-written and co-directed with Alex Garland.
On Wednesday night, A24 put on a special screening of the film at the L.A. American Legion Theater, with many of the real men behind the story present among the military community in the audience.
Warfare reunites Garland with Civil War military advisor Mendoza and this film plays out real events in real-time, based on Mendoza and his platoon’s experience on a mission in Iraq in 2006.
When things take a very extreme turn, the Platoon must find a way out, with all of their lives hanging in the balance. During a post-screening Q&A, Garland said of working with the veterans involved: “I’m a civilian and we hear about the military, and people sometimes think they understand, and they don’t.
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