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Emily Garbutt

Civil War director doesn't see his new movie as an American story – but he set it in the US for a reason

Alex Garland.

Ex Machina and Annihilation writer-director Alex Garland's new movie may focus on a group of journalists covering a second Civil War in the US, but he doesn't see the film as inherently American. 

"I don't exactly see it as an American story," he tells GamesRadar+ and Inside Total Film. "There's two primary elements in the film. One is about journalism and the other one is about polarised politics and populism – extremism, essentially – and neither of those things are in any way contained to America." 

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