Latest on Chris Hemsworth’s Upcoming Netflix Movie ‘Spiderhead’ From Images, Premiere Date

Chris Hemsworth has a new movie being added to Netflix and the first images from the film have been revealed!

Hemsworth plays a prison owner who experiments on inmates with mind-altering drugs in the second team-up between Teller and “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski.

Here is the film’s synopsis: “In a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by brilliant visionary Steve Abnesti (Hemsworth), inmates wear a surgically attached device that administers dosages of mind-altering drugs in exchange for commuted sentences. There are no bars, no cells, or orange jumpsuits. In Spiderhead, incarcerated volunteers are free to be themselves. Until they’re not. At times, they’re a better version. Need to lighten up? There’s a drug for that. At a loss for words? There’s a drug for that, too. But when two subjects, Jeff (Teller) and Lizzy (Smollett), form a connection, their path to redemption take a twistier turn, as Abnesti’s experiments start to push the limits of free will altogether.”

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A prison that encourages drug use? Well, that just might have to be the stuff of fiction…for now.

Netflix has adapted George Saunders’ New Yorker short story “Escape from Spiderhead,” about two inmates (played by Jurnee Smollett and Miles Teller) who grapple with their past crimes while living in a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by a brilliant visionary (Chris Hemsworth) who experiments on inmates with psychedelic drugs.

The tradeoff for being a test subject is a commuted prison sentence, but when the open-concept prison is challenged, the experiments start to push the limits of free will. The psychological thriller is directed by Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “TRON: Legacy”) and written by producer Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (“Deadpool,” “Zombieland”).
Director Kosinski revealed that the pop classic soundtrack, with tracks including Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me With Science” and Hall & Oates’ “You Make My Dreams,” came to him while at the dentist.
“I was listening to something like Christopher Cross while getting a tooth drilled,” Kosinski told Entertainment Weekly. “It felt interesting for [Hemsworth’s character] to create this air of relaxation and good times in a facility that’s doing something much more nefarious.”

Star Hemsworth also produces; the ensemble cast is rounded out by Mark Paguio and Tess Haubrich.

Kosinski’s blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick,” also starring Teller, is set to premiere at Cannes this year before releasing May 27.

Kosinski called the “Top Gun” sequel “so hard-earned” with intricate plane stunts resulting in 14-hour workdays. “It just took a very long time to get it all,” he told Empire Magazine. “Months and months of aerial shooting. We shot as much footage as the three ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies combined. I think it was 800 hours of footage.”

Teller plays the son of late supporting character Goose (played by Anthony Edwards in the 1986 original), the best friend of Maverick (Tom Cruise). Teller noted that actors had to be “incredibly efficient” during production. “You had to, a lot of the time, create an imaginary eyeline to where another jet would be, and when you say a line, your face better be telling the story,” Teller explained. “The sun needs to be at the right angle.”

Spiderhead also stars Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Paguio, and Tess Haubrich, and it was directed by Top Gun: Maverick‘s Joseph Kosinski.

Netflix has announced that the movie is being released globally on June 17, 2022.