War Machine

Brad Pitt to visit Stephen Colbert

In the May ratings period, talk shows scurry to sign up big stars.

“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” has one of the biggest: Brad Pitt. The actor visits the CBS show on Tuesday. His film “War Machine” will be released May 26 on Netflix.

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War Machine Trailer

“Most of us here will know Gen. McMahon as the man who kicked al-Qaida in the sack.” How’s that for an introduction. Here’s the first trailer for War Machine, the Netflix original film starring Brad Pitt as a four-star U.S. general who is tasked with leading the war in Afghanistan and his roller-coaster rise and fall. Part reality, part savage parody, it raises the specter of just where the line between them lies today.

Billed as “a film for our times” from writer-director David Michôd (Animal Kingdom), it follows McMahon (Pitt) as he leaps into the fray like a rock star to command NATO forces in Afghanistan — “Just finish this thing,” he is instructed — only to be taken down by his own hubris and a journalist’s no-holds-barred exposé.

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