Spiderhead

2022 - 5 - 18

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Chris Hemsworth runs a futuristic jail in Netflix's Spiderhead (Polygon)

Based on a George Saunders short story, Spiderhead follows a futuristic prison where the punishment is loads of experimental drugs. Starring Chris Hemsworth ...

Steve watches all of this with nothing but excitement for his unorthodox methods. In Netflix’s Spiderhead, Chris Hemsworth plays brilliant visionary Steve Abesti, who runs a futuristic penitentiary. Two inmates, Jeff and Lizzy, played by Miles Teller (Whiplash) and Jurnee Smollet (Birds of Prey), form a connection that tests the drug-loaded method.

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George Saunders meets Thor in the first trailer for Spiderhead. (Literary Hub)

Here's a cool one. The first trailer for Spiderhead, the hotly-anticipated (around the Lit Hub water cooler, at least) Netflix film based on George ...

“Escape from Spiderhead” first appeared in The New Yorker in 2010, and later in Saunders’ acclaimed 2013 collection Tenth of December (arguably the most celebrated short story collection of the past decade) and, based on the trailer, it would appear that Spiderhead hews pretty close to its source material. Set in the near future on a mysterious penitentiary/experimental research facility—presided over by a beaming and bespectacled Chris Hemsworth—whose subjects, all convicts, are administered various emotion-altering drugs in exchange for reduced sentences, Spiderhead follows Jeff (Miles Teller) as he tries to outmaneuver the system and save fellow prisoner/lab rat Rachel (Jurnee Smollet). The first trailer for Spiderhead, the hotly-anticipated (around the Lit Hub water cooler, at least) Netflix film based on George Saunders’ short story “ Escape From Spiderhead,” has been released and it looks like a hoot (a dark and disquieting hoot, but a hoot nonetheless).

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Spiderhead: release date, trailer and everything we know about the ... (What's On TV)

Spiderhead is a new Netflix original movie starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett. Here's everything you need to know about it.

Michael Balderston is a DC-based entertainment and assistant managing editor for What to Watch, who has previously written about the TV and movies with TV Technology, Awards Circuit and regional publications. He's also the director behind Top Gun: Maverick. Maybe it’s the upbeat music against the questionable human testing that is going on, but Spiderhead looks to be beating to its own drum, which could make it a fun two hours for viewers. Get a sampling of what’s in store with the Spiderhead trailer: Smollett has been working in Hollywood since she was a kid, appearing in Full House and Eve’s Bayou, but she’s had a particular good couple of years recently. This thriller/comedy mash-up with Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and more is the next entry in Netflix’s 2022 movie output, which so far has been highlighted by The Adam Projectand 365 Days: This Day.

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Chris Hemsworth Stars as a Dystopian Prison Leader in New ... (HYPEBEAST)

Spiderhead marks Kosinski's fifth film as a director, following previous titles including Tron: Legacy, Oblivion, Only the Brave and more. Spiderhead premieres ...

The movie, helmed by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, sees Hemsworth don an American accent as a pharmaceutical genius named Steve Abnesti, who runs experimental tests on prisoners in exchange for shortening their sentences. Reese and Wernick are also producing, alongside Hemsworth, Eric Newman, Agnes Chu, Geneva Wasserman, Tommy Harper and Jeremy Steckler. The sci-fi thriller premieres on Netflix on June 17.

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Chris Hemsworth runs an unsettling futuristic prison in Spiderhead's ... (The Verge)

Netflix has released the first trailer for Spiderhead, a dark sci-fi comedy starring Chris Hemsworth, which starts streaming on June 17th.

Based on a 2010 New Yorker short story by George Saunders, the film is directed by Joseph Kosinski (best-known for Tron: Legacy, Oblivion, and that Gears of War commercial) and also stars Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett as two inmates who form a connection in the aforementioned prison. If the first trailer is anything to go by, it looks like the movie will be something of a dark comedy, jumping back and forth between goofy and grim. And with new seasons of Love, Death, and Robots and Black Mirror also on the way, it appears that Netflix is really cornering the market on dystopic sci-fi.

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