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15 July 2024 • Alums War Game: New Film from Littlefield ’74
Produced by Warren Littlefield ’74, War Game simulates the aftermath of a political coup.
An Official Selection at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, War Game is a “stress test on American institutions and on democracy itself” (CBS News).
Produced by Warren Littlefield ’74, the film places audiences in an elaborate simulation that dramatically escalates the threat posed by the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.
War Game follows a bipartisan group of U.S. defense, intelligence and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations as they participate in an unscripted role-play exercise. Portraying a fictional President of the United States and his advisors, they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the U.S. military in the wake of a contested 2024 presidential election.
“Both exciting and absolutely terrifying” (Rolling Stone), the film is “like watching a slightly less absurdist version of Dr. Strangelove.…. War Game forces us to imagine what we wish was impossible, so that we can keep it that way” (Slate).
Currently screening at theatres around the country, War Game premieres in August.
A veteran Emmy Award-winning producer, Littlefield was a longtime President of NBC Entertainment. At NBC, he was responsible for developing “Must See TV” shows that defined ’90s television, including Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, ER, Will and Grace and The West Wing. Under his watch as President of the Entertainment Division, NBC won an amazing 168 Emmy awards and numerous other industry honors. In addition, as President of NBC Entertainment, he oversaw the development and production of NBC's prime time, late night and Saturday-morning entertainment programming. During his last three seasons with the network, NBC sold an industry record $6.5 billion in prime-time advertising — $2 billion more than its closest competitor.
Since then, Littlefield has produced award-winning shows such as The Handmaid’s Tale and Fargo.
Littlefield graduated from HWS with a degree in psychology. He has served as a member of the board of the L.A. Free Clinic, Dynamic Digital Depth, Heal the Bay, the Environmental Media Association, the National Coalition of Christians and Jews, and the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
