Soldier is a 1998 science fiction action film directed by Paul Anderson, written by David Webb Peoples, and starring Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee and Gary Busey. The film tells the story of an unemotional rigidly disciplined laconic soldier of the future who is left for dead, befriends a group of refugees, then faces his former superiors and soldiers who are determined to achieve their goal by eliminating the refugees. The film was released worldwide by Warner Bros. on October 23, 1998.