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Civil War is an upcoming dystopian action film[5] written and directed by Alex Garland. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Nick Offerman. Its plot follows a team of journalists who travel across the United States during the rapidly escalating Second American Civil War, which has engulfed the entire nation.
Civil War will have its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 14, 2024, and is scheduled to be released in the United States by A24 on April 12, 2024, and in the United Kingdom by Entertainment Film Distributors the same day.
Premise[edit]
In the near future, a team of journalists travel across the United States during the rapidly escalating Second American Civil War that has engulfed the entire nation, between the American government and the separatist "Western Forces" led by Texas and California. The film documents the journalists struggling to survive during a time when the government has become a dystopian dictatorship and partisan extremist militias regularly commit war crimes.[6]
Cast[edit]
- Kirsten Dunst as Lee[6]
- Wagner Moura as Joel
- Cailee Spaeny as Jessie
- Stephen McKinley Henderson as Sammy
- Sonoya Mizuno as Anya
- Nick Offerman as the President of the United States[6]
- Jefferson White as Dave
- Juani Feliz as Joy Butler
- Nelson Lee as Tony
- Edmund Donovan as Eddie
- Karl Glusman as a spotter
- Jin Ha as a sniper
- Jojo T. Gibbs as WF White House Sergeant
- Jesse Plemons as an unnamed soldier
- Jess Matney as a checkpoint soldier
Production[edit]
In January 2022, it was reported that Alex Garland had signed on to write and direct the film for A24, with Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Cailee Spaeny to star.[7] In April, Karl Glusman was announced as part of the cast.[8] In a May interview with The Daily Telegraph, Garland described the film as a companion piece to his 2022 film Men, and said it is "set at an indeterminate point in the future–just far enough ahead for me to add a conceit—and serves as a sci-fi allegory for our currently polarized predicament". In the same interview, Sonoya Mizuno was revealed as part of the cast, having appeared in all of Garland's previous films.[9]
Principal photography began in Atlanta on March 15, 2022.[10][11] By May, production had moved to London.[12] The production budget for Civil War was $50 million, making it A24's most expensive film.[4]