After debuting Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival to mostly positive reviews and a 13-minute ovation , Kathryn Bigelow ‘s A House of Dynamite gets its first teaser trailer ahead of its release next month by Netflix.

Narrated with a stark and chilling reading of Carl Sagan’s famous 1990 quote calling Earth a “pale blue dot” and “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam,” the teaser sets up Bigelow’s nuclear thriller quite effectively. We see quick cuts to faces and scenes as military leaders, government workers and a president react to what seems to be an incoming nuclear missile. A clock ticks to Defcon 1.

The film, Bigelow’s first feature since 2017’s Detroit , stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabe Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Ha

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