Details

Release year: 2025

Storyline

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

Top credits

Directors

Kathryn Bigelow

Writers

Noah Oppenheim

Cast

Idris Elba — POTUS
Rebecca Ferguson — Captain Olivia Walker
Gabriel Basso — Deputy National Security Advisor Jake Baerington
Jared Harris — Secretary of Defense Reid Baker

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Awards

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Did you know

• The title card "Hitting a bullet with a bullet" is shown over a reenactor from Gettysburg. Famously, there is an example of a bullet hitting a bullet and fusing together at the Gettysburg museum. According to legend, this happened during Pickett's Charge on July 3rd, 1863.

• The narration from the trailer is of astronomer and anti-nuclear weapon activist Carl Sagan reading from the audiobook recording of his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot (2009).

• The Presidential Emergency Briefcase containing the nuclear weapons launch codes, which is being guarded by a military aide to the POTUS, is known as the Nuclear Football. The POTUS also has a special code printed on a plastic card called biscuit, which he must use to authenticate himself to the deputy director of operations at the National Military Command Center.