Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for A House of Dynamite, its ensemble thriller marking Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow‘s first feature since 2017’s Detroit.
Written by Noah Oppenheim, the film centers on a sudden, unattributed nuclear-missile launch against the United States and the scramble among top civilian and military officials to determine responsibility and decide how to respond. Among the leads, Idris Elba plays the U.S. President grappling with the attack.
Others in the sprawling ensemble include Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, and Jason Clarke. Additionally, there’s Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen, and Kaitlyn Dever.
World premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival, A House of Dynamite is produced by Greg Shapiro, Kathryn Bigelow, and Oppenheim. Brian Bell and Sarah Bremner exec produced, with Jeremy Hindle, Sumaiya Kaveh, and Luca Borghese co-producing. The film hits select theaters in the UK October 3, opening in select theaters globally October 10 before making its way to Netflix on October 24.
One of Netflix’s big narrative feature awards prospects this season, A House of Dynamite is joined on that front by Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player starring Colin Farrell, Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, and Rian Johnson’s whodunit threequel Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
Watch the trailer for Bigelow’s latest by clicking above.