Launching on Netflix in the spring is the brand new feature film Sand Castle starring Nicholas Hoult and Henry Cavill as a couple of American soldiers on the front lines fo the second Gulf War.
Sand Castle is the second feature film from acclaimed Brazilian director Fernando Coimbra (A Wolf at the Door), who also directed episodes from Season One of the Netflix global-hit series “Narcos.”
Joining Hoult and Cavill on the cast Glen Powell, Beau Knapp, and Neil Brown Jr. Check the image gallery below for a closer look at the boys in action.
Official Synopsis
Set in Iraq in 2003, Sand Castle follows a group of American soldiers in the early days of the second Gulf War. Bearing witness to the heat and the horror is the inexperienced Private Matt Ocre (Nicholas Hoult), who together with several fellow soldiers is ordered to the outskirts of Baqubah to repair a water pumping station damaged by U.S. bombs. But as Ocre discovers, in an atmosphere where resentment and anger fester, trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals is a task fraught with danger. It’s here, in the streets, squares and schools that he discovers the true cost of war.