Ray Mendoza, who co-wrote and co-directed A24’s ‘Warfare’ with Alex Garland, recreated a real-life 2006 Iraq War mission for fellow soldier Elliott Miller A24; Jesse Grant/Variety via Getty ...

Navy SEAL veteran Ray Mendoza co-wrote and co-directed the new A24 movie Warfare with filmmaker Alex Garland The movie is Mendoza and his fellow soldiers’ detailed recreation of a real-life 2006 Iraq ...

Mendoza had a personal experience in mind, from November 2006, when he and a group of Navy SEALs were assigned ... a three-week training based on a SEAL program designed to prepare soldiers ...

“Warfare,” the new film co-directed by Alex Garland (“Civil War,” “Ex Machina”) and former US Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, knows it’s going to give audiences a rough ride, so it starts off ...

Ray Mendoza knew he needed to make “Warfare.” The pulse-pounding Iraq War drama (in theaters Friday) is co-directed by the retired Navy SEAL, who dedicated the film to his platoonmate ...

Before NASA, he was an emergency medicine resident at Harvard and served as a Navy SEAL. Jonny Kim served as ... physician after serving in the Iraq War. In his mid- to late 20s, Kim earned ...

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?

Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film. Would it be possible ... He posed that question to former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, who served in Iraq and had in recent years ...