Teaser trailer for Brad Pitt film War Machine

War Machine is a war story for our times, writer-director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) re-creates a U.S. General’s roller-coaster rise and fall as part reality, part savage parody – raising the specter of just where the line between them lies today. At the story’s core is Brad Pitt’s sly take on one of the most polarizing war figures of a generation: successful, charismatic four-star General Stanley McChrystal, who leapt in like a rock star to command NATO forces in Afghanistan, only to be taken down by a journalist’s no-holds-barred exposé.

Check out the first trailer for War Machine – which hits theaters on December 31st, 2017 – below.