Kathryn Bigelow Unveils Title of Netflix Film Starring Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Kaitlyn Dever, and Greta Lee

Kathryn Bigelow is bringing nan action backmost to Netflix. The acclaimed head makes her return to filmmaking pinch thriller “House of Dynamite” astir nan White House consequence to a home rocket attack.

The task was announced successful 2024 pinch a Puck study confirming that “Jackie” and “Zero Day” scribe Noah Oppenheim was penning nan original script. The film will beryllium group successful real-time and stock a sensibility pinch Bigelow’s erstwhile films “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Detroit,” and “The Hurt Locker.”

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris, Greta Lee, Gabriel Basso, Anthony Ramos, Tracy Letts, and Moses Ingram will prima successful “House of Dynamite,” on pinch Jonah Hauer-King, Jason Clarke, Kaitlyn Dever, Willa Fitzgerald, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Malachi Beasley, Kyle Allen, Francesca Carpanini, Brian Tee, Brittany O’Grady, Abubakr Ali, and caller IndieWire Honors victor Aminah Nieves of “1923” fame.

The logline reads: “When a single, unattributed rocket is launched astatine nan United States, a title originates to find who is responsible and really to respond.”

“House of Dynamite” will premiere successful prime theaters successful October and connected Netflix October 24. This is simply a milestone for some Bigelow and Netflix: Amid nan push from filmmakers specified arsenic Rian Johnson and Greta Gerwig to person theatrical releases for features, Netflix is putting Bigelow’s connected nan large screen.

“House of Dynamite” is Bigelow’s first movie since 2017’s “Detroit.” She was antecedently processing an adjustment of David Koepp’s caller “Aurora” besides for Netflix, but nan movie was scrapped successful 2022.

Nieves told IndieWire that nary of nan formed of “House of Dynamite” moreover knew nan title of nan movie while successful production. “It’s wild, because I don’t moreover cognize nan sanction of nan movie, and I don’t cognize erstwhile it’s coming out,” Nieves said. “All I tin opportunity is that it is wholly different than what you’ve ever seen maine do — which is not a batch — but still wholly different and it was a very challenging domiciled successful regards to nan clip I spent pinch it and what it asked retired of each of us.”

Bigelow was nan first female to triumph an Oscar for Best Director successful 2009 pinch “The Hurt Locker.” Bigelow told IndieWire successful 2017 while promoting “Detroit” that each of her films person “meaningful messaging,” particularly astir nan government.

“At nan extremity of nan day, intermezo needs a shred of messaging to it. That’s a existent motivator,” she said. “The genre constituent is captivating and attractive, some arsenic a spectator and a filmmaker, but utilizing it arsenic a conveyance to move a speech guardant aliases astatine slightest radiance a ray connected a speech is highly exciting. [‘Detroit’ was] challenging material, but truthful were ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Hurt Locker.’ When you activity successful this abstraction wherever intermezo unsocial is not enough, you’re utilizing it arsenic a transportation method for meaningful messaging, truthful you’re operating successful a much journalistic mode. I deliberation if it’s a bully communicative and there’s important individual committedness from nan filmmaker, it will find a measurement to scope an audience.”

The iconic “Point Break” head added, “I’m ever encouraged by nan committedness and dedication of a filmmaker who lives successful their material. Usually, that belief translates to nan surface and truthful nan audience. That’s what moves maine — truth and integrity… there’s an integrity pinch respect to nan prime of worldly by nan filmmaker and really he aliases she realizes nan story.”

“House of Dynamite” is produced by Bigelow, Oppenheim, and Greg Shapiro. Brian Bell and Sarah Bremner executive produce.