{"id":159758,"date":"2025-09-25T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159758\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:25:07","slug":"annihilation-approaches-the-u-s-in-a-house-of-dynamite-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/159758\/","title":{"rendered":"Annihilation approaches the U.S. in A House Of Dynamite trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, Oppenheimer<\/a> took home best picture for its depiction of the genesis of the United States\u2019 nuclear program. This year, Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s A House Of Dynamite imagines its end. \u201cI always thought just being ready is the point,\u201d Idris Elba\u2019s character says in the film\u2019s new trailer. \u201cIt keeps people in check, keeps the world straight. If they see how prepared we are, no one starts a nuclear war.\u201d As you can probably imagine, that\u2019s not what happens.<\/p>\n

The rest of the trailer watches as a group of high-level government officials\u2014including characters played by Rebecca Ferguson and Jason Clarke\u2014panic and scramble as an intercontinental ballistic missile heads straight for the continental United States. At one point, someone remarks that they\u2019ve never seen the military readiness condition set to DEFCON 2 (near nuclear war) before. Later, Gabriel Basso\u2019s character remarks that diverting the missile is like \u201chitting a bullet with a bullet.\u201d The situation is very grim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are dedicated professionals at the highest level of government being called on to make impossible decisions in the most extreme circumstances imaginable, which is almost scarier in a way,\u201d Bigelow\u2014who said she sees this film as part of an unofficial triptych including The Hurt Locker<\/a> and Zero Dark Thirty<\/a>\u2014told Tudum<\/a>. \u201cI wanted the view of the film to be trained inward, not outward, and for the audience to lean into the ambiguity at the heart of the nuclear debate: How can we call this defense when the outcome could well be total destruction? The antagonist is the system we\u2019ve built to essentially end the world on a hair trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kathryn Bigelow goes nuclear in A House Of Dynamite teaser<\/a><\/p>\n

A House Of Dynamite premieres in select theaters on October 10, before streaming on Netflix October 24. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Oppenheimer took home best picture for its depiction of the genesis of the United States\u2019 nuclear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-159758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}