You won't need to leave the house to watch the next great political thriller. That's because "A House of Dynamite" is coming straight to Netflix later this year, albeit with a brief theatrical run in the U.K. and U.S.
The streaming service has already shown off a fair amount from Kathryn Bigelow's follow-up to "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty," including a world premiere of the movie at the Venice Film Festival just yesterday (Sept. 2). Now, those of us who couldn't afford an Italian getaway have a first official teaser trailer to get us hyped, and it's officially worked on me.
For those of you who missed it when Netflix revealed the first poster for "A House of Dynamite," this political thriller is centered around “a single, unattributed missile" from an unknown foreign power that is launched at the city of Chicago. It centers around U.S. government officials scrambling to address and neutralize the threat, and purportedly takes place in real-time.
You get some sense of this pacing in the official teaser trailer. The trailer starts with an aerial shot of the Washington Monument and then cuts to a red title card that reads "The Day Starts." We then get a brief look at Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker, who handles communications between the White House and U.S. military officials and who was revealed in the "A House of Dynamite" first look images in early August, before cutting to another intertitle that says "Like Any Other." And until about the 20-second mark, this does feel like it could be a day like any other.
But then we see "ICBM-DETECTED" on a computer screen and we know that, no matter what happens, this day will be far from ordinary. To match this shift, our voiceover, which seems to be a riff on a quote from Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot," also takes a turn from the nihilistic to the downright macabre, mentioning "the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors."
As things go from bad to worse, the score and air raid sirens join the voiceover in dominating the trailer, building a tension that I surely hope the movie can match. Because this trailer gave me chills by the end of its 87 seconds, and based on the overwhelmingly positive reviews so far, I'm hoping the feature-length "A House of Dynamite" can do the same when it hits U.K. theaters on Oct. 3, U.S. theaters on Oct. 10 and is released on Netflix across this pale blue dot we call home on Oct. 24.
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