Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Civil War director Alex Garland gives insight into his creative process and details how football plays were useful when planning his latest movie. The upcoming action-thriller follows a group of journalists as they traverse through a fictional second Civil War set in the near future. The film stars Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman, Jesse Plemons, and Stephen McKinley Henderson.
The football play thing is something I do anyway. Storyboards are great; they work very well for certain kinds of films. In something like this, and in general when I'm doing action, what I want the actors and crew and all of us to understand is the flow of movement. Actually, football plays explain that more clearly than storyboards do. You look at a top-down view and you can see an arrow in these little circles, which are the people are moving through here and around.
How Civil War Is Shaping Up To Be Garland’s Most Important Film So Far Civil War Is Being Deemed A Warning Of The Current Political Climate. Close The Civil War trailers also left questions about Texas and California's unusual pairing as allies , further leaving intrigue about the movie's events. After insinuating in an interview with The Guardian, the movie became even more significant as it could have been spelled as the final directorial movie under Garland's belt. However, that comment has since been clarified that the director is simply taking "a break from directing for the foreseeable future."