Netflix’s Acclaimed Thriller A House of Dynamite Just Dropped an Explosive Trailer
Netflix drops the first A House of Dynamite trailer, teasing Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller ahead of a staggered rollout: UK theaters October 3, U.S. theaters October 10, and a global Netflix launch October 24, 2025.
Kathryn Bigelow is back. Netflix just dropped the first trailer for her political thriller 'A House of Dynamite,' and it looks like a white-knuckle, war-room nail-biter about a rogue missile and the people scrambling to figure out what the hell to do about it.
The setup
'When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.'
The trailer leans hard into that premise: national security officials getting hit with an incoming nuclear alert, sprinting to verify it, hunting for who pushed the button, and arguing over how to respond without lighting the world on fire. It is very much the 'everyone is exhausted and terrified in fluorescent lighting' kind of intensity Bigelow does so well.
Release plan (mark your calendar)
Netflix is giving this one a short theatrical runway before it hits streaming everywhere:
UK: select theaters on October 3, 2025. US: select theaters on October 10, 2025. Then it goes global on Netflix on October 24, 2025.
Cast roll call
- 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
Behind the scenes
Bigelow directs from a script by Noah Oppenheim. This is her first feature in years, which is a big deal on its own, but pairing her with this subject matter feels like 'of course' in the best way.
Producers: Greg Shapiro, Kathryn Bigelow, Jeremy Hindle, Sumaiya Kaveh, and Noah Oppenheim. Executive producers: Brian Bell and Sarah Bremner.
Bottom line
If you like your thrillers tense, procedural, and full of Very Stressed People With Clearances, this is squarely in that lane. The trailer looks sharp, the cast is stacked, and the premise is uncomfortably plausible. October 24 is not that far away.