It’s been eight long years since Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s last film, Detroit, but that is finally about to change at Netflix. Today, the streamer announced the title of her military political thriller, A House of Dynamite, which will get a limited theatrical release this fall, followed by a Netflix release on October 24th.
We’ve known for months the basic gist of the story. It follows the reaction to a single, rogue missile launched at the U.S. as those in power try to figure out who did it and how best to stop it.
As usual, Bigelow has put together an incredible ensemble. Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabe Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, Jason Clarke, Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen, and Kaitlyn Dever star.
The script is by The Maze Runner and Jackie writer Noah Oppenheim.
Bigelow knows her way around military thrillers. While she’s famous for directing Point Break, Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Hurt Locker. She also directed Zero Dark Thirty and K-19: The Widowmaker. Her most recent film was Detroit in 2017.
A trailer for A House of Dynamite shouldn’t be too far behind, so stay tuned for that.
