Ray Mendoza, who co-wrote and co-directed A24’s new movie ‘Warfare’ with Alex Garland, recreated a real-life 2006 Iraq War mission gone wrong for fellow soldier Elliott Miller, who suffered a lost leg and traumatic brain injury during the harrowing incident.

Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film. Would it be possible, he wondered, to take 90 minutes of a real incident involving combat and recreate it as faithfully as possible?