A24 on Monday debuted the first trailer for Warfare, an immersive step into the reality of the Iraq War from the Navy SEAL’s perspective, which hits theaters in 2025.
Written and directed by Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (28 Years Later), Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of U.S. forces through insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.
An ensemble piece, the film’s cast includes D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henrique Zaga, Joseph Quinn, and Charles Melton.
Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich of DNA and Peter Rice produced the action drama.
An Iraq War veteran, Mendoza came to partner with Garland on Warfare after serving as his military supervisor on Civil War, his dystopian drama, starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, and Cailee Spaeny, which released this spring, grossing over $126 million worldwide. Also for A24, that film is set in a near-future America fractured by violent conflict, following a group of journalists traveling from New York to Washington, D.C. to document the devastating impact of a second American Civil War.
An Oscar nominee otherwise best known for projects like Ex Machina and Devs, Garland recently signed on to script a new trilogy of films in the zombie series 28 Days Later for Sony. He co-wrote and produced the first installment, 28 Years Later, helmed by Danny Boyle, which releases June 20, 2025 and just released its first trailer to much fanfare.
Coming off the December 6 release of Kyle Mooney’s disaster comedy Y2K, A24 next releases Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist on December 20 and Halina Reijn’s Babygirl on December 25. Check out the trailer for Warfare above.