A House of Dynamite Trailer and Poster Unveiled by Netflix

Netflix has unveiled the official trailer and poster for Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, which is scheduled to open in select UK theaters on October 3. The film will then open in select global theaters on October 10 before it begins streaming on Netflix on October 24.

In the thriller written by Noah Oppenheim, a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, and a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. The film has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for language.

A House of Dynamite stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, and Jonah Hauer-King, with Greta Lee and Jason Clarke. Malachi Beasley, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle Allen, and Kaitlyn Dever round out the cast.

“I grew up in an era when hiding under your school desk was considered the go-to protocol for surviving an atomic bomb. It seems absurd now — and it was — but at the time, the threat felt so immediate that such measures were taken seriously,” said Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty).

The filmmaker added, “Today, the danger has only escalated. Multiple nations possess enough nuclear weapons to end civilization within minutes. And yet, there’s a kind of collective numbness — a quiet normalization of the unthinkable.

“How can we call this ‘defense’ when the inevitable outcome is total destruction? I wanted to make a film that confronts this paradox — to explore the madness of a world that lives under the constant shadow of annihilation, yet rarely speaks of it.”

A House of Dynamite was produced by Greg Shapiro, Kathryn Bigelow, and Noah Oppenheim. The executive producers include Brian Bell and Sarah Bremner. Jeremy Hindle, Sumaiya Kaveh, and Luca Borghese are the co-producers for the Netflix release.

Barry Ackroyd is the director of photography, Jeremy Hindle is the production designer, Sarah Edwards is the costume designer, and Kirk Baxter is the editor. The music is by Volker Bertelmann, and the sound design is by Paul N. J. Ottosson.