Netflix have already left their mark on the TV landscape with their original content, and the past year or so they have firmly set their sights on the movies, bringing on board A-list talent for productions including Martin Scorsese's crime epic, The Irishman, a new Will Smith blockbuster on the horizon ('Bright'), and this much-anticipated Brad Pitt flick, War Machine.
It sees Pitt and his production company Plan B team up with Netflix and Aussie director David Michod (Animal Kingdom) for an adaptation of the bestselling novel The Operators, by late journalist Michael Hastings. Pitt isn't the only impressive star in the lineup either, joining him will be Emory Cohen, RJ Cyler, Topher Grace, Anthony Michael Hall, Anthony Hayes, John Magaro, Scoot McNairy, Will Poulter, Alan Ruck, Lakeith Stanfield, Josh Stewart, Meg Tilly, Tilda Swinton and Sir Ben Kingsley.
Described as "a film for our times", it's an absurdist war story about a "rock star" general (Pitt) who commands NATO forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by his own hubris and a journalist’s no-holds-barred expose.
According to the folk at Netflix: "Writer-director David Michôd recreates a U.S. General’s roller-coaster rise and fall as part reality, part savage parody – raising the spectre of just where the line between them lies today."
War Machine will be released globally on Netflix on 26 May 2017.
