Disturbing “Civil War” footage blows up the Lincoln Memorial

Kirsten Dunst, Nick Offerman, and Jesse Plemons star in "28 Days Later" writer Alex Garland's horrifying portrait of America at war with itself.

If you thought the world of Alex Garland's upcoming thriller Civil War couldn't get any more disturbing after its first trailer teased a country at violent odds with itself, the film's new preview takes things one step further and, uh, blows up the Lincoln Memorial.

Kirsten Dunst leads the new A24 project as a journalist trekking across the nation with a band of reporters heading to Washington, D.C., where the intense clash of disparate groups from around the country seems to come to a head.

Soundtracked by a haunting, whistle-only rendition of "America the Beautiful," the teaser sees Dunst's crew tussling with renegade factions as they make their way through a tattered nation, with shocking imagery showing an apparent refugee camp set up at a high school football stadium, barren New York City streets, and, at the end of the clip, a quick sequence involving a rocket launcher decimating the Lincoln Memorial.

Though plot details for the project have been kept tightly under wraps, December's initial trailer drop outlined a story involving the secession of 19 states, prompting an uptick in army activity and subsequent rebel tension. The country has apparently split into subdivisions, including the "Western Forces" of California and Texas and the "Florida Alliance," all under the watch of a dictatorial president played by Nick Offerman.

The film marks Garland's fourth solo directorial effort, after he rose to prominence as the writer of Danny Boyle's beloved zombie thriller 28 Days Later in 2002. He made his feature debut helming the similarly lauded Ex Machina in 2014 and 2018's Annihilation.

Civil War — also starring  Jesse Plemons, Karl Glusman, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Sonoya Mizuno — releases April 12 in theaters and in IMAX. Watch the new preview above.

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