{"id":307953,"date":"2026-03-01T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:25:10","slug":"first-clip-alan-ritchson-in-war-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307953\/","title":{"rendered":"First Clip: Alan Ritchson In &#8220;War Machine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/first-clip-alan-ritchson-in-war-machine.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/first-clip-alan-ritchson-in-war-machine.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"first-clip-alan-ritchson-in-war-machine\"\/><\/a>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of its release this coming Thursday, Netflix has premiered a new clip from the Alan Ritchson-led feature film \u201cWar Machine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, the final stage of US Army Ranger selection is underway, and an elite team\u2019s training exercise in a forested region turns into a fight for survival when the training exercise stops feeling controlled and starts feeling hunted.<\/p>\n<p>Soon fear, fatigue, and paranoia start corroding the team\u2019s efforts against an unimaginable threat \u2013 a mechanoid of incredibly advanced design that won\u2019t stop until its found and killed them all.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, Blake Richardson, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Daniel Webber co-star in the film which was shot in the Australian state of Victoria in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The film has been rated R for \u2018strong violence, grisly images and language\u2019. Patrick Hughes (\u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Bodyguard,\u201d \u201cThe Expendables 3\u201d) directs from a script he co-wrote with James Beaufort.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No amount of training can prepare you. War Machine, starring Alan Ritchson, premieres in 1 week. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dSUHYhmAGX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/dSUHYhmAGX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Netflix (@netflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix\/status\/2027443614918258989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix Ahead of its release this coming Thursday, Netflix has premiered a new clip from the Alan Ritchson-led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-307953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}