War Machine will release on Netflix on March 6, 2026, and will stream worldwide.
The movie stars Alan Ritchson as a soldier whose training turns into a real fight against a deadly alien machine.
Directed by Patrick Hughes, the film shows soldiers trying to survive and stop a powerful new threat.
Alan Ritchson is getting ready to act in another action movie, but this one is very different from his past roles. He is famous for his strong and muscular role in Reacher. Now, he will star in War Machine, a science-fiction action movie made by Netflix. The film mixes military training with a dangerous fight to survive. It promises fast action and strong emotions. The movie is directed by Patrick Hughes. The story follows a group of highly trained soldiers. What starts as a simple training test quickly turns into a real battle for survival in a strange and hostile place. The team must push themselves to their limits to stay alive.
War Machine: OTT Release Date and Platform
War Machine will premiere on Netflix on March 6, 2026. The film is a Netflix original and will stream globally. It will not have a theatrical release. Viewers can watch it with an active Netflix subscription from the release date.
In the final hours of a grueling selection process, a group of elite Army Ranger candidates led by Recruit 81 (Alan Ritchson) finds their training exercise transformed into a desperate fight for survival. Trapped in a remote wilderness, they are hunted by an unstoppable extraterrestrial killing machine that outclasses their weaponry and endurance. As the squad is systematically picked off, they must abandon their training manuals and use raw ingenuity to stop a high-tech threat that signals the dawn of a much larger global invasion.
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