Bigelow's A House of Dynamite Premiered at Venice

Kathryn Bigelow’s new political thriller A House of Dynamite, which imagines White House staffers scrambling in real time to respond to a single, unattributed missile headed for the United States, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will reach cinemas and Netflix in October. The film, directed by Bigelow from a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, had its Venice debut in early September and was followed by the release of a teaser trailer as distributors announced a limited U.K. theatrical opening on October 3, a select global theatrical rollout beginning October 10, and a Netflix streaming release on October 24.

Set largely inside government crisis rooms, the film tracks a team of officials racing to determine responsibility for the incoming strike and to decide how to respond. The ensemble cast is led by Idris Elba as the U.S. president and Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker, the military communications lead. Other principal players include Gabriel Basso as Deputy National Security Advisor Jake Baerington, Jared Harris as Secretary of Defense Reid Baker, Tracy Letts as General Anthony Brody, Anthony Ramos as Major Daniel Gonzalez, and Jason Clarke as Admiral Mark Miller....