Netflix to make war film about ‘rock star general’ with Brad Pitt

Pitt will produce and star in Netflix's 2016 satirical comedy film 'War Machine'

Netflix is teaming up with Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B to make War Machine, a satirical comedy film about a “rock star general”.

Pitt will produce and star in the film, which is inspired by Michael Hastings’ 2012 book The Operators: The Wild And Terrifying Inside Story Of America’s War In Afghanistan. Animal Kingdom director David Michôd is set to write and direct with shooting due to start in August.

“I’m humbled to be making a big, bold movie about the whole sprawling, complex, cumbersome and crazy machinery of modern war and the many lives it touches,” Michôd said in a press release. “We are so excited to be a part of the inspiring commitment by Netflix to produce cutting-edge content and to deliver it to a global audience,” Pitt added.

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War Machine will launch on Netflix in 2016 and also be released in “select” cinemas. Netflix’s plot synopsis for the film teases: “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 will follow several ‘Netflix Original’ films set to premiere on the streaming service later this year, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon II: The Green Legend, Adam Sandler’s controversial comedy The Ridiculous Six and Beasts Of No Nation, a war drama starring Idris Elba.

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