Netflix is teasing its newest major, and we mean major, project this week.
The streaming service has released the very first trailer for its star-studded film, “War Machine”, starring none other than Brad Pitt, alongside Tilda Swinton, Sir Ben Kingsley, Anthony Michael Hall, and Meg Tilly. Netflix unveiled the clip during its “See What’s Next” event in Berlin on Wednesday.
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Set during the Afghan war, the film tells the real-life story of the mouthy-yet-charismatic General Stanley McChrystal (Pitt) who led NATO forces before losing his title. “A pitch-black war story 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,” Netflix’s synopsis of the film reads. “His is an absurdist look at 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 one of the most polarizing war figures of a generation: successful, charismatic four-star General Stanley McChrystal, who leapt in like a rock star to command NATO forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by a journalist’s no-holds-barred exposé,” the description continues.
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Based on “The Operators: The Wild & Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan”, a book written by the late journalist Michael Hastings, the film begins streaming May 26. Save the date!