War Machine

A general is sent to assess the ongoing war in Afghanistan and believes more troops are needed, but faces frustration and lack of communication with the President, eventually leaking his assessment to the media and organizing interviews, leading to a surge of troops but angering the general, who travels to Paris to negotiate for additional troops and is warned not to anger the President further, resulting in his eventual firing and decision to take a civilian consultant job instead, while a journalist reflects on his negative article in hopes of ending the war. War Machine is a 2017 American English-language Comedy Drama movie starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Michael Hall, Anthony Hayes, Topher Grace, Will Poulter, Tilda Swinton and Peter Trevor. The movie is based on The Operators by Michael Hastings. Plan B Entertainment in association with Blue-Tongue Films. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Ted Sarandos and Ian Bryce. War Machine is written by Michael Hastings, David Michôd and David Mich D and it is directed by David Michôd and David Mich D. Netflix acquired the distribution rights for the movie. War Machine was released on 26th May 2017 and takes a screen time of 122 minutes. War Machine was made on a budget of $60 million. Cinematography was done by Dariusz Wolski and editing by Peter Sciberras. The music was composed by Nick Cave along with Warren Ellis.