Netflix has released the trailer for “A House of Dynamite,” a new political thriller from the Oscar-winning director of “The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow.
The film follows Rebecca Ferguson as Olivia Walker, a Situation Room senior duty officer who must locate the source of a lone nuclear missile heading toward the United States and stop it before it levels Chicago.
Other cast members include Idris Elba, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee and Jason Clarke.
The film received an 11-minute standing ovation after its Tuesday night Venice Film Festival premiere. Elba brought Bigelow to her feet as the claps rolled on. They politely joined in the applause themselves while Ferguson blew kisses to the audience at the Sala Grande Theater.
At a Venice press conference earlier in the day, Bigelow told reporters she hopes “the film is an invitation to decide what to do about all these weapons.”
“My answer would be to initiate a reduction in the nuclear stockpile,” she said. “How is annihilating the world a good defensive measure?”
Although Venice was keen on the film, Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman was lukewarm. In his review, he wrote the festival had delivered mostly “films,” but “A House of Dynamite” was certainly a “movie.”
“Or, more to the point, a Netflix movie, though even Netflix sometimes makes films (like the ones they have in this year’s festival, ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Jay Kelly’),” he continued. “But ‘A House of Dynamite,’ a countdown-to-nuclear-disaster thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, is jacked up with so many familiar MOR tropes that even though it’s trying to be realistic about what it shows you (spoiler alert: It doesn’t really succeed), it still has the feel of a self-consciously jittery high-end cautionary potboiler.”
Bigelow directs with a script from Noah Oppenheim. The pair also serves as producers alongside Greg Shapiro. Executive producers include Brian Bell and Sarah Bremner. Jeremy Hindle and Sumaiya Kaveh serve as co-producers.
“A House of Dynamite” comes to select cinemas worldwide on Oct. 10 before coming to Netflix on Oct. 24. Check out the trailer below.
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