Texas and California? Alex Garland is British isn’t he? Did he just pick the two most populous states? I can’t imagine a scenario where those two states ally in this way. But maybe Alex Garland has a better imagination than I do.
Nick Offerman being presidential, Jesse Plemmons being threatening, Kirstin Dunst being in a movie with Jesse Plemmons, and Cailee Spaeny being in an Alex Garland production. It must be the 2020’s :)
Visually it looks pretty good. But yes, there’s no way that Texas and California would team up to do literally anything at any point in time.
— Alan
Yeah, I’m just not feeling this one. Shame. I would’ve thought that Alex Garland and a movie about a modern US civil war would be pretty cool, but this preview actually un-hyped me.
“Let’s see. What movie movie do I need to write and direct that would make torture porn seem deep and insightful”.
Holy hell this looks stupid.
You had me at Alex Garland
Looks dumblicious.
CP2077 did it better.
San Francisco may not align with San Antonio, but Bakersfield sure might.
In any case… it’s Alex Garland and A24, so odds are this will be good. I don’t think I want to see it. I’m depressed enough about the likely future.
And Austin won’t align with Amarillo either.
— Alan
I’m giving Alex Garland the benefit of the doubt. I regularly am reminded that I live in a blue bubble whenever I visit family up, down and across California.
Im in, making a popcorn movie out of something that is likely to become real is…cathartic…is that the right word?
Hey, there’s Nick Offerman! I am moderately interested.
This looks like Doomerporn of the highest order.
I think there’s a high likelihood that Alex Garland is doing something non-obvious with this subject matter. He’s got Nick Offerman as the president of the United States, and either Garland is completely oblivious to the comedy neurons that unavoidably fire in peoples’ heads when they hear Offerman speak, or he’s doing something very deliberately with that fact.
Did you catch Offerman in Last of Us or Devs? He can do serious.
I was about to say this. It’s like some of you never saw Garland direct Offerman in Devs.
Garland generally has interesting enough ideas to give the benefit of the doubt about this. California and Texas, though? I’m wondering how he’s going to square that.
I’m going to take a shot in the dark that the “how all this came to pass” is of lesser interest to Garland, secondary to where all this goes from the point of secession.
I doubt he will. I think this movie is going to be about the journey more than trying to explain the origins of the titular civil war.