From writer/director Dan Krauss and based on the same events that inspired his award-winning 2013 documentary of the same name, The Kill Team follows Andrew Briggman (Nat Wolff), a young soldier in the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, who finds himself under the direction of Sergeant Deeks (Alexander Skarsgård). What he first thinks is someone to admire and expect is quickly revealed to be a sadistic leader that leads the other Army recruits in the platoon to kill innocent civilians, and Briggman must decide whether to report them to higher-ups, which could end up making himself …

Nat Wolff talks to Screen Rant about his new film, The Kill Team, based on the 2013 documentary about criminal soldiers in the War in Afghanistan.

Director Dan Krauss talks to Screen Rant about his new wartime drama, The Kill Team, based on his provocative documentary of the same name.

A24 has released the first trailer for The Kill Team, which stars Nat Wolff and Alexander Skarsgard, and is set during the height of the war in Afghanistan. The film hails from writer-director Dan Krauss, who based it on the same true story depicted in his 2013 documentary of the same name. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey produced the feature. Wolff stars as Adam, an eager American soldier who doesn’t fit in with his rowdy, trigger-happy squad in Afghanistan, where he's coerced by his new sergeant (Skarsgård) into killing civilians against his will -- or else …