{"id":30289,"date":"2024-07-06T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=30289"},"modified":"2024-07-06T20:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T00:59:46","slug":"war-game-2024-premeire-film-forum-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/war-game-2024-premeire-film-forum-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"<small><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>U.S. Theatrical Premiere August 2 at Film Forum:<\/strong><\/span><\/small><br>WAR GAME \u2013 Here&#8217;s <em>the WORD<\/em> Prelude for This Adrenaline Pumper Already Getting Rave Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Prelude<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WAR GAME Trailer\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oq4OA2QAGok?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What will happen six months from now,\u00a0 January 6, 2025, when Congress convenes to certify the 2024 presidential election? Will the truly elected candidate be confirmed, or will another \u2014 more successful \u2014 attempt to subvert American Democracy be unleashed. Will government leaders be prepared?<\/p>\n<p>Real life ex-government and military participants are acting-performing in WAR GAME, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Bullock_(American_politician)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Bullock,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heidi_Heitkamp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heidi Heitkamp<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wesley_Clark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wesley Clark<\/a> and others. They act-perform in an immersive, fully-staged simulation in the White House Situation Room as if they are real-world confronted by a coup launched by rogue elements within the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[One in five criminal defendants of the 2021 Capitol attack were military veterans \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/21\/958915267\/nearly-one-in-five-defendants-in-capitol-riot-cases-served-in-the-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> NPR report.<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collaborating with the non-partisan organization Vet Voice, directors Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber (FULL BATTLE RATTLE) expertly craft this credible nightmare \u2014 gaming out the unthinkable in a heartstopping race to save democracy.<\/p>\n<p>WAR GAME had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and went on to play at CPH:DOX (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival), DC\/DOX documentary film festival, and more.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jesse Moss\u2019s films include the Oscar\u00ae-shortlisted documentary BOYS STATE (Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary), THE OVERNIGHTERS (Sundance Special Jury Prize) and THE MISSION. Tony Gerber, an Emmy and PGA award-winning filmmaker, has directed over a dozen films for NatGeo. His feature docs include FULL BATTLE RATTLE, co-directed with Moss, THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT (Sundance Film Festival official selection), and he produced the Oscar\u00ae-shortlisted, Emmy-nominated documentary TAKEOVER.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Publicity Trending\u00a0 Virally<\/h3>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cExcellent \u2026 A political thriller in documentary form.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Bilge Ebiri, Vulture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cA must-watch. Chilling and engrossing. [It] has a terrific sense of urgency and apprehension; it\u2019s so engrossing you\u2019re often sucked into the doc, forgetting it\u2019s just an elaborate fiction. It all feels frighteningly real.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Rodrigo Perez, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/war-game-trailer-upcoming-doc-discusses-what-might-happen-if-theres-a-political-coup-in-the-u-s-20240626\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Playlist<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cA briskly paced, compelling docu-thriller perfectly timed for another hotly contentious election year in the United States\u2026 As engaging as it is thought-provoking, WAR GAME should attract US media and international outlets with an appetite for America\u2019s instability, as well as news junkies who do not already get enough drama from the real world.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 Anthony Kaufman, Screen International<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cAs the game grows more complex, WAR GAME invokes footage not only of January 6, but of other flashpoints in American history involving protest, state violence or religious extremism \u2014 Kent State, the MOVE bombings, Waco and so on \u2014 building a tapestry of the past, as a chilling reminder of what might happen if warnings go unheeded.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/reviews\/war-game-review-1235947612\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Siddhant Adlakha, Variety<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cLike watching a slightly less absurdist version of DR. STRANGELOVE. WAR GAME forces us to imagine what we wish was impossible, so that we can keep it that way.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2024\/01\/trump-2024-presidential-election-war-game-movie-sundance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam Adams, Slate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Directed by Tony GerberJesse Moss and stars Chris Henry Coffey and Frederick Wellman.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Film Forum @ 50<\/em><br \/>\n<em>209 West Houston Street<\/em><br \/>\n<em>New York, NY 10014<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Box Office: 212-727-8110<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"War Game | Official Trailer\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0eW0gptV4vE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7155\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7155\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Editor, Publisher Gregg W. Morris<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Can be reached at gregghc@comcast.net, profgreggwmorris@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Siddhant Adlakha, Variety:<\/strong> \u201cAs the game grows more complex, WAR GAME invokes footage not only of January 6 but of other flashpoints in American history involving protest, state violence or religious extremism \u2014 Kent State, the MOVE bombings, Waco and so on \u2014 building a tapestry of the past, as a chilling reminder of what might happen if warnings go unheeded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/war-game-2024-premeire-film-forum-greggwmorris\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1959],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-tv-preludes-trailers-teasers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30289"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30374,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289\/revisions\/30374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}