Violence spreads from sea to shining sea in latest Civil War trailer

A24 has dropped its second trailer for Civil War, a dystopian action movie from director Alex Garland that imagines a fractured near-future United States tearing itself apart. With a budget of $50 million, Civil War is A24’s most expensive film to date.

Civil War is now due to hit theaters on April 12th, two weeks ahead of its previous April 26th release date. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Nick Offerman, the movie follows a group of journalists navigating their way across the US as it descends into the second American Civil War. 

Just like the first trailer that was released in December 2023, the latest doesn’t give us much else to go on. Portraying the US president, Offerman immediately opens with a public service announcement calling to depose the “illegal secessionist government” of the “Western Forces of Texas and California” as a haunting whistle cover of “America the Beautiful” plays over war-torn scenes — including one dramatic shot of the Lincoln Memorial being blown up.