Kathryn Bigelow’s new film is officially called A House Of Dynamite, and we’ll be seeing it this October. More on it here.
Kathryn Bigelow’s next film feels like it’s been a long time coming. After what seemed a long period of development, it was rather dismaying to learn in the spring of last year that Netflix wouldn’t be moving forward with Aurora, an apocalyptic thriller written by Jurassic Park scribe, David Koepp.
As you may know, there was a change in leadership at the streaming platform’s film division around that time, and Bigelow’s project – her first since 2017’s Detroit – was one casualty of many. Mind you, some reports have suggested that Bigelow may have actually exited the project, leading to its cancellation.
Either way, it wasn’t welcome news, but was sweetened by the reveal that Bigelow is collaborating with the streaming platform on a different project: A House Of Dynamite. Happily, that project has made it all the way through production and is now set for release in October.
The next project from the Point Break and Zero Dark Thirty filmmaker is a thriller that focuses ‘on a group of White House officials scrambling to deal with an incoming missile attack on the US.’
It’s got quite a meaty cast, not to mention two eminently watchable leads: Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson will be front and centre, while Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Kaitlyn Dever, 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 and Kyle Allen will all feature too.
The script is by former NBC News president Noah Oppenheim and it looks to be going for that hard-edged style with the action and the tension set to unfold in real-time. Oppenheim has previously written Jackie and the film adaptation of The Maze Runner.
A limited theatrical run has been set for the film in early October, but that likely doesn’t mean A House Of Dynamite will be coming to a cinema near you unless you’re exceptionally lucky.
Still, with Netflix seemingly dipping its toe into theatrical releases to a greater extent than we’ve ever seen before, who knows, maybe we’ll get a break here and get to enjoy Kathryn Bigelow’s long-awaited comeback in a cinema. The filmmaker is also said to be involved in an A24 TV remake of her 1980s neo-western vampire flick, Near Dark – something we’re rather excited about. More on that here.
