Key Takeaways

• Film Overview: A House of Dynamite is directed by Kathryn Bigelow and features a star-studded cast.
• Plot Summary: The film revolves around a missile launched at the United States, prompting a race to find the responsible party.
• Release Dates: The film will premiere in theaters on October 10 and stream on Netflix starting October 24.
• Director’s Motivation: Bigelow aims to address the global issue of nuclear threats through this film.

Earth gets reduced to a dot in the new haunting trailer for A House of Dynamite from Netflix. The new film comes from Kathryn Bigelow and stars a huge cast that includes Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, with Greta Lee, and Jason Clarke. Also starring Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen and Kaitlyn Dever.

The official logline for A House of Dynamite from Netflix reads, “When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.” Bigelow directs from a script by Noah Oppenheim, whose credits include Jackie, which starred Natalie Portman, and the Robert De Niro political thriller mini-series Zero Day. A House of Dynamite is produced by Greg Shapiro, Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Oppenheim, with co-producers Jeremy Hindle and Sumaiya Kaveh. Brian Bell and Sarah Bremner are the executive producers on board.

Bigelow described the topic of the film as “a global issue” and said she was motivated by a desire to “get that information out there.” She also stated, “Hope against hope, maybe we will reduce the nuclear stockpile someday, but in the meantime, we are really living in a house of dynamite.”

She continued to explain her motivations for making the Netflix paranoia thriller, “I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was considered the go-to protocol for surviving an atomic bomb. It seems absurd now — and it was — but at the time, the threat felt so immediate that such measures were taken seriously. Today, the danger has only escalated. Multiple nations possess enough nuclear weapons to end civilization within minutes. And yet, there’s a kind of collective numbness — a quiet normalization of the unthinkable. How can we call this ‘defense’ when the inevitable outcome is total destruction?”

Then, she continued, “I wanted to make a film that confronts this paradox — to explore the madness of a world that lives under the constant shadow of annihilation, yet rarely speaks of it.” The film is due to release in select theaters on October 10, and then it will be available to stream on Netflix on October 24.

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Netflix