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Long shrouded in mystery, the untitled Kathryn Bigelow war movie at Netflix has finally got an official title and release date. Titled A House of Dynamite, the film will be available globally on Netflix starting October 24, 2025 (the Netflix app incorrectly lists August 24, 2025), and features an absolutely stacked cast. It’s also scheduled for a limited theatrical run.
Filmed in late 2024 between September and December across multiple locations, including Kearny in New Jersey, Washington, D.C., as well as in Pennsylvania, the movie was initially described as “a harrowing ticking-clock thriller, centered on a group of White House officials scrambling to deal with an incoming missile attack on the U.S.”
A newly updated synopsis based on a script by Noah Oppenheim, released today, expands, reading, “When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.”
The cast for the film includes:
- Idris Elba (The Wire)
- Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation)
- Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy)
- Jared Harris (Chernobyl)
- Tracy Letts (The Big Short)
- Anthony Ramos (In the Heights)
- Moses Ingram (The Queen’s Gambit)
- Jonah Hauer-King (The Little Mermaid)
- Greta Lee (Past Lives)
- Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty)
- Malachi Beasley (Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)
- Brian Tee (Chicago Med)
- Brittany O’Grady (Little Voice)
- Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire)
- Willa Fitzgerald (Scream: The TV Series) as Abby Jansing
- Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton)
- Kyle Allen (The Shannara Chronicles)
- Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart)
This is one of two projects that famed director Kathryn Bigelow had at Netflix, alongside Aurora. This horror thriller had been in development for several years until it was announced to be scrapped in early 2024. Bigelow is best known for films like The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, and Detroit.
Given that the title and release date for the movie were first fed to an awards journalist at Variety, the streamer must think this one has potential to nab some Oscar noms in the upcoming race, which will be at our doorstep before you know it.
From Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow comes A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, in select theaters October and on Netflix October 24. pic.twitter.com/QBG7Ay75oo
— Netflix (@netflix) June 18, 2025
Executive Producers: Brian Bell, Sarah Bremner
Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd, BSC
Production Designer: Jeremy Hindle
Costume Designer: Sarah Edwards
Editor: Kirk Baxter, A.C.E.
Music By: Volker Bertelmann
Sound Design By: Paul N. J. Ottosson
Co-Producers: Jeremy Hindle, Sumaiya Kaveh
Casting By: Susanne Scheel
We’ll have more on A House of Dynamite in the coming weeks and months ahead of its release. For more on what’s still to come to Netflix throughout the remainder of 2025, keep it locked here on What’s on Netflix.
