To celebrate the tradition of SEAL training in Coronado, Garland and Mendoza held a red-carpet screening on March 29 at the Village Theatre in Coronado. The principal members of the film’s cast also attended, including D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, who plays Mendoza in the film.

Civil War’ Filmmaker and a Former SEAL Built a New Kind of Combat Movie in ‘Warfare’ Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film. Would it be possible, he wondered, to take 90 minutes of a real incident involving combat and recreate it as faithfully as possible?