What are the odds of Kathryn Bigelow‘s A House of Dynamite (Netflix, streaming on 10.24) playing the Venice Film Festival? Fairly high, I would guess. Perhaps Telluride also.
Noah Oppenheim‘s script is set inside the White House. It’s a high-tension political/military situation drama about a rogue missile heading for the United States. Presumably targeting some location in Washington, D.C. or maybe New York….some place symbolically significant.
Who’s behind it?, how much time before it hits?, how to respond?, etc.
The U.S. president, I’m guessing, is being played by Idris Elba. The costars are Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Jonah Hauer-King, Moses Ingram, Greta Lee and Jason Clarke.
Sasha Stone: “I know two things about this movie without seeing it. The first is that the politics will lean left. Which means there are only two people who can be responsible for the missile — a Trump-like MAGA figure or a Putin-like dictator. And, because it’s Netflix, it can’t be anyone who is non-white doing the damage.
“Only one kind of villain is allowed in Hollywood in 2025 — a heterosexual white man. Occasionally a heterosexual white woman. This isn’t just a Netflix thing — it’s a Hollywood mandate.”
The trailer will probably pop sometime in July.
