Not to be confused with Marvel's War Machine character, Brad Pitt will be starring in David
Michôd's (Animal Kingdom, The Rover) War Machine, a Netflix adaptation of Michael
Hasting's best-selling book, titled The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying
Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan.
Produced by Netflix and Pitt's Plan B production company, the satirical
comedy is "a big, bold movie about the whole sprawling, complex,
cumbersome, and crazy machinery of modern war and the many lives it touches,"
said the filmmaker.
Inspired by the
best-selling book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of
America’s War in Afghanistan by the late Michael Hastings, War
Machine concerns a four star, “rock star” general whose lethal reputation
and impeccable track record vaults him to command the American war in
Afghanistan. Determined to win the “impossible” war once and for all with a
radical new approach, the general and his motley staff of commanders and press
advisers race across the globe navigating delicate international alliances and
troop requests, the charged battlefield of Washington politics, the voracious
appetite of the media, and the day-to-day management of the war itself – all
the while struggling to stay connected to the lives of men and women out in the
field.
War
Machine should begin principal photography this coming August, for a release on
Netflix and in select theaters sometime in 2016.
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