Kathryn Bigelow's <em>A House of Dynamite</em> Looks Tense as Heck

Eight years after Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow is primed to add another awards-worthy military movie to her filmography: A House of Dynamite, coming soon to Netflix.

Although veterans still take umbrage with her Oscar-winning war film The Hurt Locker, Bigelow remains synonymous with pressure-cooker pictures about men and women in uniform. A House of Dynamite is shaping up to be another one in the books for Bigelow, carrying the same aura of her previous films like Blue Steel (1990), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), the aforementioned The Hurt Locker, and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). If you liked those movies, A House of Dynamite is probably up your alley.

Directed by Bigelow and written by former NBC News president and Jackie screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, A House of Dynamite takes place inside U.S. military war rooms as the White House scrambles in the face of an incoming missile attack on American soil. The movie stars Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, Jared Harris, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Greta Lee, and Jason Clarke. The Last of Us' Kaitlyn Dever will also have a role. Following its Venice International Film Festival premiere on September 2, the movie will stream globally on Netflix on October 24.

There's little else known about A House of Dynamite, including whether the movie is based on true events. (It isn't. Probably. Let's hope.) A complete trailer has yet to make its online as well. But a few images from Netflix are available, which provide a glimpse at the heightened anxieties the film's characters endure as the first strike in a probable war is imminent.

Will A House of Dynamite pop off as Bigelow's big return to directing? Let's hope so. We'll find out come October 24, when A House of Dynamite streams on the platform everywhere. In the meantime, check out the new images from the film below.