Alex Garland‘s mysterious Civil War is coming into focus with its politically charged first trailer.
As the trailer reveals, Kirsten Dunst stars as a journalist living in a near future in which 19 states have seceded from the Union, with Western Forces (including California and Texas) and the Florida Alliance among those in the conflict. Meanwhile, the three-term President of the United States, played by Nick Offerman, has ordered air strikes on U.S. soil against these forces.
“Every time I survived a war zone, I thought I was sending a warning home: Don’t do this,” Dunst’s character says as she attempts to reach Washington, even as forces close in on the city.
Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Sonoya Mizuno also star in Civil War, which Garland wrote and directed.
Garland has long been in business with A24, dating back to his directorial debut, the 2014 feature Ex Machina. The indie studio will release his latest movie April 26.
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