Netflix Just Dropped the Explosive Official Poster for Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite
Netflix just lit the fuse on Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear-arms thriller A House of Dynamite, unveiling a stark new official poster that teases a slow burn before the boom.
Netflix dropped a new poster for Kathryn Bigelow's next paranoia thriller, and with a title like A House of Dynamite, subtlety is clearly not on the menu. The hook is clean, the cast is stacked, and the rollout is fast.
The premise (in Netflix's own words)
"When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond."
So yeah, classic Bigelow pressure-cooker setup: one horrifying inciting incident, a clock ticking, and a lot of very stressed people making decisions that could break the world.
The cast is kind of ridiculous
- Idris Elba
- Rebecca Ferguson
- Gabriel 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
- Kaitlyn Dever
Who is making this thing
Bigelow is directing from a script by Noah Oppenheim, who wrote Jackie and worked on the Robert De Niro political thriller mini-series Zero Day. Producing is a small army: Greg Shapiro, Kathryn Bigelow, and Oppenheim lead the charge, with co-producers Jeremy Hindle and Sumaiya Kaveh. Executive producers are Brian Bell and Sarah Bremner. Inside baseball note: that many producers usually means a ton of moving parts behind the scenes.
What Bigelow says she is chasing here
Bigelow frames the film as a response to how numb we've gotten to nuclear risk. She talks about growing up with duck-and-cover drills, how the threat has only ballooned since, and how we now treat the unthinkable as background noise. The point, as she puts it, is to confront the paradox of calling this state of permanent, civilization-ending potential a 'defense' posture. She also calls the subject a global issue and says she wants to get the information out there. In short: this is designed to rattle you on purpose.
Release plan
A House of Dynamite hits select theaters on October 10, then lands on Netflix on October 24. New poster now, two-week window, then straight into your queue. Efficient.