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A politically charged new thriller, <\/span>Civil War<\/span><\/em> is an upcoming film that’s been courting some controversy since its South by Southwest premiere in March 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n From writer-director Alex Garland, known for <\/span>28 Days Later <\/span><\/em>and <\/span>Never Let Me Go<\/span><\/em>, comes another look at dystopia — this time set amid the chaos and conflict of a second American Civil War.<\/span><\/p>\n Kirsten Dunst<\/a> plays Lee, a photojournalist who is traversing the embattled country, from which California and Texas have seceded and united to form the “Western Forces” in an attempt to overthrow the established government. While documenting the inhumane horrors of American infighting and the reality of citizens becoming refugees in their own country, she seeks to tell the truth, a mission that feels inexplicably controversial even amid the real-life divisive state of U.S. politics.<\/span><\/p>\n While it’s no wonder that such a film would provoke some type of controversy, Garland promised following <\/span>Civil War<\/span><\/em>‘s SXSW screening that his story is “intended as a conversation.”<\/span><\/p>\n “It is not asserting things \u2014 I mean I guess it’s asserting some things,” he clarified. “But it’s a conversation, and that means it’s not a lecture.”<\/span><\/p>\n The English director also said that, above all, his film is “a sort of love letter to journalism and how important it is.”<\/span><\/p>\n “There’s two kinds of filmmakers. There’s filmmakers who sort of, in a weird way, they make films about the films they love, which is a perfectly good thing to do. And there’s others that are in some way reacting to the world around them,” Garland explained. “And I’m in the second category. And so is it connected to the world? Yeah, it’s connected to the world. That’s more than just this country. Some of the things being discussed in <\/span>Civil War<\/span><\/em> exist globally. They’re not distinct to America. They might be contained here, but they’re not solely here.”<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s everything we know so far about the upcoming film.<\/span><\/p>\nTHE CAST<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n