HBO Max has released an official teaser for its new legal drama series War. In just two months we will see what this series will have in store for us.
For those who don’t know, War is a series that tells a story about two top London law firms who are clashing over a shocking divorce case that rocks the legal world, with elite attorneys fighting for supremacy. The trailer shows tech entrepreneur Morgan Henderson and his former wife a film star, Carla Duval who are in dire straits when it comes to this divorce. The trailer mentions that this will be the biggest divorce settlement in London history. Backing the two former spouses are London’s most powerful law firms, Cathcarts & Sons and Taylor & Byrne. This divorce will draw in a young lawyer named Johnathan “Johnny” Warren into a world where winning is top of the agenda, betrayal is viewed as a strategy, and ambition will see him go far.
The cast consists of Maja Simonsen (Ladies First, The Night Manager), Marisa Tomei (Spider-Man: Brand New Day, F*ck Valentines Day), Kelly Macdonald (Dept. Q, Skeleton Crew), Richard Schiff (The Commuter, The Good Doctor), David Harewood (The Agency, Othello), Erik Alens (Last Days, Dune: Prophecy), Omari Douglas (Black Doves, And Mrs), Matt Beauman-Jones (The Capture, Jingle Bell Heist), Tammy Appenzellar (Secret Service, We Might Regret This), Darren Charman (Ivanko’s Childhood, The Hack), Patrick Fabian (Watson, Ponies), Dylan Edwards (Tyger, A Small Light), Jake Simmance (Worry Time, Two Neighbors), Ned Campbell (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Teen Adkun Sitaram), Clifford Samuel (007 First Light, Little Bone Lodge), Benjamin Robinson (War, Can We Fall in Love This Summer?), Claire Lichie (The Death of Bunny Munro, Doctors), Dominic West (Brassic, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale), Sienna Miller (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2), Nick Mohammed (Slow Horses, The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr), and Emma Laird (Mint, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple).
According to Deadline, War has already been greenlit for season 2 and production is already underway. The series is set to premiere on October 1, 2026.