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One of the most anticipated films in a controversial red versus blue election year, A24 Civil war, It caused quite a stir Thursday night in Austin, TX, the Democratic stronghold of Texas, and the media, of which this article highlights, relished it like a pile of beef ribs.
The dystopian future film is set in a United States where a demagogue president rules for three terms (sound familiar? He’s played by Nick Offerman). Civil war It follows a war journalist, played by Kirsten Dunst, as she traverses a very hostile America.
Attend a screening of A24’s “Civil War” at the Bullock Texas State History Museum at SXSW on Thursday, March 14 in Austin, Texas.
Courtesy A24
“The film is intended to be a conversation. It is not stating things. It is not a conference. So you want to leave space for people to contribute their part to the conversation,” filmmaker Alex Garland said during the Q&A session at the Paramount Theatre. He has worked with A24, dating back to his directorial debut and his artistic love, Ex Machina.
Garland explained the origins of the film: “It was four years ago. I wrote it back then and sent it to A24 and they just said, ‘Yeah, all good,’ which was surprising. “This is a brave film to finance, so it was highly appreciated.”
Dunst added: “I’ve never read a script like this, I’ve never seen anything like it.” His investigation process began when he “put the camera in my hand.”
The photo also stars priscilla star Cailee Spaeny who worked with Garland on her FX miniseries, Developers.
A24 also projected Civil war an hour after its world premiere at the Paramount of the Texas History Museum, which has the largest Imax screen in the Lone Star State.
There Garland said he wanted to turn journalists into heroes Civil war because in “every democracy they are not a luxury, but a necessity.”
Below are tweets from the media that is going crazy over the movie. It opens on April 12 and screens in Imax.