A24 Sets an Earlier Release Date for Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’
Garland’s action thriller about a fractured United States will be released in early April
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According to Deadline, A24 will be moving the wide release of Alex Garland’s upcoming action film Civil War to an earlier release date.
Originally scheduled to release on April 26th, the film will now premiere on April 12th.
Civil War stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen Henderson, Jesse Plemons, Sonoya Mizuno and Nick Offerman.
The film explores a near-future world in which a fractured United States is englufed in a series of escalating conflicts that verges on the advent of a new civil war. It follows a team of journalists travelling through the country to document abuses committed by a tyrannical government and extremist militias.
Given how Alex Garland’s previous film Men served as a meditation about gendered violence, Civil War will likely be an allegory reflecting on how political dissent and far-right politics are tearing the United States apart.
Although I’m a fan of Alex Garland’s sci-fi outings, I can’t say I’m very excited for Civil War after finding Men to be such a let-down. You can check out my opinion piece on that film here.
