Filmmaker Alex Garland and Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza have collaborated on a new movie told in real-time, based on a real battle Mendoza fought during his service. The film, which explores themes of war and its lasting impact, will offer a visceral and immersive experience for viewers.
Fresh from the climactic White House battle of 'Civil War,' Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza have made an entire movie set in real-time and based on real events. Christian Holub is a writer covering comics and other geeky pop culture. He's still mad about 'Firefly' getting canceled.'s vision for a possible future of America. Next year, he’s diving into the past to recreate a real war from recent history.
Garland’s new film— which he co-wrote and co-directed it with Ray Mendoza, an Iraq War veteran who was a key advisor on the filming of thatin a corridor where we shot it and edited it to be in real-time. So I approached Ray and asked if he had a story or true-life event that he would be interested in telling in real-time,' Garland tellsin a joint Zoom conversation with Mendoza. 'We started talking about this film, which is something that Ray, unbeknownst to me, had been wanting to make for a long, long time. My role then was just to facilitate Ray telling this story that he already wanted to tell.”is personal. He lived it, during his time in the U.S. military in the Iraq War. The movie is a roughly 90-minute real-time recreation of a real battle that Mendoza and his comrades fought while stationed there. He has long wanted to recreate this day on screen for the benefit of one of his fellow soldiers — though it will also have the added effect of transporting viewers into the midst of the fray.“The story is not solely about me. I was one of the guys there, and some of it is being told from my perspective initially, but one of the guys named Elliot got severely wounded upon extraction,” Mendoza tells EW. “He’s had some issues and extremely bad damage to his extremitie
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