brad pitt's character in war machine was based on general stanley mcchrystal.
who is brad pitt's character in war machine based on?
general stanley mcchrystal
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war machine is a 2017 american satirical war film directed and written by david michôd and starring brad pitt, anthony michael hall, anthony hayes, topher grace, will poulter, tilda swinton, and ben kingsley. based on the nonfiction book "the operators: the wild and terrifying inside story of america's war in afghanistan" by michael hastings, it is a fictionalized version of the events in the book based on united states army general stanley mcchrystal.









































the film was released on netflix on may 26, 2017.









































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war machine (film)
on 14 april 2014 it was announced that michôd will write and direct "the operators", based on the 2011 best seller of the same name by michael hastings. the film will be jointly produced by plan b entertainment, new regency and ratpac entertainment, with brad pitt attached to star. it was later retitled as "war machine". in march 2017, netflix released a teaser trailer for the film in which brad pitt is playing a thinly veiled version of stanley a. mcchrystal. hastings wrote the "rolling stone" article that revealed the friction between mcchrystal's staff and then president barack obama's and would ultimately lead to mcchrystal losing his job. pitt's character is named mcmahon.
david michôd