Civil War Trivia | 35 facts about the new film

“Civil War” is a new film by filmmaker Alex Garland and the first big movie by A24 in an effort to get into blockbusters.

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the film.

1. Civil War is a 2024 dystopian war film
2. It is written and directed by Alex Garland
3. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman
4. It focuses on a team of journalists who travel across the United States during a rapidly escalating Second American Civil War
5. The civil war has engulfed the nation
6. Civil War premiered at South by Southwest on March 14, 2024
7. It was theatrically released in the United States by A24
8. In the United Kingdom by Entertainment Film Distributors on April 12, 2024
9. The film received positive reviews from critics
10. In the United States and Canada, the film is projected to gross $18 to 24 million from 3,800 theaters in its opening weekend
11. This marks the widest-ever R-rated release by an independent studio
12. The film made $10.8 million on its first day
13. Including 2.9 million from Thursday night previews
14. This was a record for an A24 release
15. Following the SXSW premiere, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes noted that critics called the film “a gorgeously shot cautionary tale full of big ideas and a fantastic performance by Kirsten Dunst, but it may surprise some viewers”
16. Critics praised the “beauty and intensity of the dystopian drama”
17. While noting its “potential for controversy and disappointment” due to the effectiveness of its messages
18. On the site, the film holds a 83% rating
19. Based on 243 critics’ reviews
20. With an average rating of 7.6/10
21. The website’s critical consensus reads: “Tough and unsettling by design, Civil War is a gripping close-up look at the violent uncertainty of life in a nation in crisis”
22. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 77 out of 100
23. Based on 56 critics
24. Indicating “generally favorable” reviews
25. In January 2022, it was reported that Alex Garland had signed on to write and direct the film for A24, with Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Cailee Spaeny to star
26. In April, Karl Glusman was announced as part of the cast
27. In a May interview with The Daily Telegraph, Garland described the film as a companion piece to his 2022 film Men
28. And said it is “set at an indeterminate point in the future–just far enough ahead for me to add a conceit—and serves as a sci-fi allegory for our currently polarized predicament”
29. In the same interview, Sonoya Mizuno was revealed as part of the cast
30. Having appeared in all of Garland’s previous films
31. Principal photography began in Atlanta on March 15, 2022
32. By May, production had moved to London
33. The production budget for Civil War was $50 million, making it A24’s most expensive film
34. The movie was shot on the ‘prosumer’ DJI Ronin 4D camera
35. In a March 2024 interview with The Guardian, Garland stated that after Civil War, he intends to step back from directing and focus only on writing