Kit Connor, Will Poulter and Jospeh Quinn are three of the hottest names in Hollywood. So when the trailer for Warfare saw their trio of beautiful faces all alongside each other, getting stuck into the grit and grime of… well, warfare, the internet got very excited indeed.

Throw in an ammo box worth of other universally-fancied young men, and a hotshot director fresh off the back of some recent war film success in the shape of Civil War's Alex Garland, and things start to look pretty damn good. So what's the deal with this Warfare business? Everything you need to know (about the film that is, not the general concept of warfare) is below.
What is Warfare?
It's a new film co-written and co-director by Civil War and Ex Machina director Alex Garland, alongside Ray Mendoza. Mendoza is a former US Navy SEAL, and the film is based on a his own experience of going behind enemy lines with his platoon in Iraq.
Mendoza worked on Civil War as a military advisor, and in an interview with GQ last year Garland explained that although he considers himself to be taking a step away from directing post-Civil War, it became clear while they were working on Civil War together that Mendoza had a story he wanted to tell, and Garland decided he would help him tell it. “I don't think you should attribute films to individuals because they're a group effort, but to the extent you can, that's Ray's movie,” he said of Warfare.
The film takes place in real-time and, if the trailer’s anything to go by, it’s going to be a full-on stressfest. Think Boiling Point, but instead of a kitchen it’s insurgent territory in 2006 Iraq.
Who’s in Warfare?
Well we have the aforementioned Kit Connor (Heartstopper, Rocketman), Will Poulter (The Bear, We’re the Millers) and Joseph Quinn (Gladiator II, Stranger Things), and a host of other similarly-fancied men.
They include D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai from Reservation Dogs as Ray Mendoza, alongside Sopranos front man James Gandolfini’s son Michael (who played a teenage version of his father’s character in The Many Saints of Newark), Riverdale’s Charles Melton, Finn Bennett from Black Doves and True Detective: Night Country, and Taylor John Smith from Where the Crawdads Sing.
Behind the camera, it’s an A24 number, so expect something a little less straightforward than your typical all-action war movie.
When does Warfare come out?
All we know for sure currently is that it’ll be some time this year