THE BAD ’BATCH? Benedict Cumberbatch plays Stuart Couch, tasked with prosecuting Mohamedou Ould Salahi .
From Zero Dark Thirty to The Report, Hollywood depictions of the war on terror all have one thing in common – they’re told from the American perspective. “What we’ve never seen is a man accused of terror, who’s humanised within that system,” director Kevin Macdonald tells Teasers. “This is a story of a really remarkable individual who survived incredible and horrendous treatment, and has emerged with his spirit intact.”