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At long last, Netflix is pulling back the curtain on Kathryn Bigelow‘s mysterious new movie at the streaming service. Since last year, the Oscar-winning director behind The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, and Point Break has been quietly assembling a star-studded cast for her first feature in eight years, including Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson. Only now, however, do we have an official title and release date for her long-awaited return, and it is not far off. The project will go under the name House of Dynamite and is officially set to stream on the platform and arrive in select theaters on October 24.
Featuring a screenplay penned by Noah Oppenheim, who previously created Netflix’s Robert De Niro-led political thriller series Zero Day, House of Dynamite is also a thriller centered on the White House. The film will follow officials in the building as the U.S. faces down an unattributed missile strike, and they scramble to find who is responsible and determine how to respond. Further plot details have been kept tightly under wraps, though it’s likely to bring the same intensity as her past projects, particularly her 2013 effort with Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke. Taking the thrills onto a national scale with its White House focus also makes it a departure from her last film, 2017’s Detroit, which was a true-crime drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots and starring John Boyega and Anthony Mackie.
As previously announced, Elba and Ferguson are joined in Bigelow’s latest by Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Jonah Hauer-King, Moses Ingram, and Greta Lee. House of Dynamite also marks a reunion with the director’s Zero Dark Thirty star Clarke, who most recently enjoyed roles across the big and small screen with Oppenheimer and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. With the reveal of the title and release date, Netflix also confirmed a load of new stars coming aboard, including Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen, and Kaitlyn Dever. The film was produced by Bigelow and Oppenheim alongside her frequent collaborator Greg Shapiro, known especially for his work on her hit war movie The Hurt Locker.
The Stars of ‘House of Dynamite’ Have Kept Busy in the Meantime
As Bigelow’s latest has come together over the past year, her stars have been all over film and television in the meantime. Elba’s last appearance on the big screen came over the holiday season when he reprised his role as Knuckles in the box office smash Sonic the Hedgehog 3. On the horizon, though, House of Dynamite isn’t the only film that will get him involved in U.S. affairs, as he’s also set to star in the action comedy Heads of State on July 2, which casts him as the U.K. prime minister alongside John Cena‘s POTUS in a mission to thwart a global conspiracy that affects both nations. Ferguson, meanwhile, returned to Apple TV+ earlier this year for Season 2 of Silo and recently wrapped production on Season 3 with Season 4 set to film shortly. She’s also eyeing another big feature with one of Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty stars, Chris Pratt, with Mercy in 2026.
Before that team-up hits theaters, though, House of Dynamite will make its way to Netflix and select theaters on October 24. Stay tuned here at Collider for more on Bigelow’s new movie as it nears release.