Netflix has released a new trailer for War Machine, a based-on-a-true-story parody starring Brad Pitt as a four-star general inspired by Stanley McChrystal. An adaptation of the book “The Operators: The Wild & Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan” by Michael Hastings, the Netflix original tracks the general’s rise and fall.
Written and directed by David Michôd, War Machine also stars Tilda Swinton, Sir Ben Kingsley, Anthony Michael Hall, Topher Grace, Will Poulter, Lakeith Stanfield, Emory Cohen, John Magaro, RJ Cyler, Alan Ruck, Scoot McNairy and Meg Tilly. It arrives on Netflix on May 26th.
In a film for our times, writer-director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) recreates a U.S. General’s roller-coaster rise and fall as part reality, part savage parody – raising the specter of just where the line between them lies today. His is an anti-establishment, pro-soldier exploration in the form of an absurdist war story of a born leader’s ultra-confident march right into the dark heart of folly. At the story’s core is Brad Pitt’s sly take on a successful, charismatic four-star general who leapt in like a rock star to command NATO forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by his own hubris and a journalist’s no-holds-barred expose. War Machine addresses the debt we owe to soldiers to question the purposes to which they are being directed.
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