Kirsten Dunst stars as a war photographer in Alex Garland’s near-future-set feature “Civil War,” imagining a not-so-distant America at war with itself.

“Priscilla” breakout Cailee Spaeny also appears in the dystopian action thriller whose logline portends a “race to the White House in a near-future America balanced on the razor’s edge.” Watch the first trailer below.

Garland, whose last film was the horror allegory “Men” starring Jessie Buckley, writes and directs the politically charged thriller. Wagner Moura, Sonoya Mizuno, and Stephen McKinley Henderson also star. Nick Offerman, who appeared in Garland’s 2020 FX series “Devs” along with McKinley Henderson and Mizuno, plays the United States president as seen in the trailer. The first footage suggests this is Garland’s most expansive film yet, spanning the U.S. as it tears itself apart, with Dunst portraying a journalist.

Garland previously told The Daily Telegraph that “Civil War” is indeed...