In new A24 movie Warfare, the line is blurred between fact and fiction, although this may not be intentional. What the film does intend to do, however, is provide a hyper-realistic depiction of life on the frontline, based on co-writer and co-director Ray Mendoza's experience as a Navy SEAL in the Iraq War. He's collaborated with Ex Machina's Alex Garland (who he previously worked with as a military supervisor on Garland's 2024 movie Civil War) to recreate a real-life surveillance mission carried out by Mendoza's platoon in the Iraqi village of Ramadi in November 2006.
Reservation Dogs star D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai plays Mendoza, the platoon's communicator, and the ensemble cast also includes The Bear's Will Poulter, Fantastic Four's Joseph Quinn, Heartstopper's Kit Connor, Shogun's Cosmo Jarvis, May December's Charles Melton, and Daredevil: Born Again's Michael Gandolfini.
