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Netflix Just Dropped the First Official Trailer for Its Upcoming Big-Budget Thriller and It Gave Me Chills
The film explores nuclear warfare dangers through government officials' urgent efforts to prevent an attack on Chicago, highlighting global risks, director Kathryn Bigelow said.
- On Tuesday, Kathryn Bigelow premiered A House of Dynamite at the Venice Film Festival; it opens in limited U.K. and U.S. theaters before streaming on Netflix.
- Bigelow said her motivations stem from Nuclear-era school 'duck and cover' drills, framing the project as addressing the global nuclear threat and describing it as living in 'a house of dynamite.'
- The film centers on government officials racing to stop a nuclear attack on Chicago, with Idris Elba as the U.S. president and Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker.
- At Venice, the film received thunderous applause and David Rooney, chief film critic at The Hollywood Reporter, called it an 'unrelenting chokehold thriller,' while the official trailer imagery showing Earth reduced to a dot intensified anticipation.
- Following her Oscar-winning work on The Hurt Locker, which collected six Oscars, Netflix frames A House of Dynamite as Bigelow's follow-up, tapping global political anxieties.
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Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson lead an all-star cast in Netflix's A House of Dynamite
This October, Netflix will be expanding its portfolio with a thrilling political drama that explores how the United States deals with being targeted by a singular and unattributed missile. The premise of the film revolves around how the nation adapts to the threat and attempts to determine who is behind the missile launch and how to respond to such a declaration of war. Known as {A House of Dynamite}, this film is coming from director Kathryn B…
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