'Warfare' directors Alex Garland, Ray Mendoza preview real-time Iraq War movie

Earlier this year, audiences saw filmmaker Alex Garland's vision for a possible future of America. Next year, he’s diving into the past to recreate a real war from recent history. 

Despite the title, Garland’s Civil War played more like an American road trip movie that followed a group of journalists making their way to Washington, D.C. for one last interview with an embattled and unnamed president (Nick Offerman). As they reach the capital, the film climaxes with an action-packed assault on the White House. But Garland’s new film Warfare — which he co-wrote and co-directed it with Ray Mendoza, an Iraq War veteran who was a key advisor on the filming of that Civil War climax — is more like if that sequence was blown out into an entire movie.