US EditionFilm ‘Warfare’ immerses viewers in real-time Iraq War mission
- Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza co-directed A24's new film, *Warfare*, which depicts a real-time combat mission on November 19, 2006, in Ramadi, Iraq.
- The film recreates a harrowing surveillance mission where Mendoza's Navy SEALs faced a fight for their lives during the Iraq War.
- To reconstruct the almost 90-minute event, Garland and Mendoza interviewed platoon members and recreated the setting on a U.K. Airfield.
- The cast, including Noah Centineo and Michael Gandolfini, underwent a three-and-a-half-week boot camp and got matching tattoos with the message "Call on Me."
- Opening in U.S. Theaters on April 11, 2025, *Warfare* aims to reflect the psychological and physical impact of war without an agenda, informed by SEALs' memories.
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'Warfare' depicts gritty reality of combat in Iraq
New A24 film Warfare places audiences among a platoon of US Navy SEALs as they battle insurgents during the Iraq War. Written and directed by combat veteran Ray Mendoza and filmmaker Alex Garland, the movie is a real-time re-enactment of a 2006 surveillance operation gone awry and based entirely on the memories of Mendoza and the soldiers who took part in it. Warfare follows Garland's 2024 film Civil War, which Mendoza worked on as a military su…
Iraq Combat Gets ‘Forensic Recreation’ Treatment as A24 Provides ‘Economy and Freedom’ to Alex Garland, Ray Mendoza for ‘Warfare’
A harrowing 2006 Navy SEAL mission in Ramadi, Iraq, comes to brutally authentic life in “Warfare,” the latest collaboration between “Civil War” director Alex Garland and military veteran Ray Mendoza. At Tuesday’s U.K. premiere, the filmmakers revealed how their refusal to moralize about combat emerged from a shared commitment to truth-telling in a medium often […]
Crafting 'Warfare': Inside the intense film about an Iraq War battle and the Navy SEALs who lived it
Kit Connor, Charles Melton, Will Poulter, Joseph Quinn, and D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, and co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza take EW behind the scenes of their intense new movie, 'Warfare.'
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