‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Director Reunites With Miles Teller in Netflix’s Sci-Fi ‘Spiderhead’ Trailer
variety.comWilson Chapman editorLess than a month after the highly anticipated “Top Gun: Maverick” flies into theaters, director Joseph Kosinski is reuniting with star Miles Teller for the Netflix sci-fi thriller “Spiderhead.”Based on the George Saunders short story “Escape From Spiderhead,” which was originally published in The New Yorker, “Spiderhead” stars Teller as a prisoner at the titular state-of-the-art penitentiary, designed by inventor Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth).
Located on a gorgeous island, the island offers its prisoners reduced prison sentences and good accommodations at a price; every inmate wears a surgically attached experimental device that administers mind-altering drugs in their brain.Although Abnesti is convinced that his work will save lives, the experiments he carries out on his patients begins to test the boundaries of free will.
When two subjects, Steve (Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee Smollett) form a romantic connection, the two begin to rebel against him and his attempts to program them.
The trailer shows tense action scenes throughout the complex, laced with several moments of humor. “Beautiful people get away with too much,” Hemsworth says during a scene in the film. “I say that having benefited myself from time to time.”Kosinski directs a script written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who are best known for writing “Zombieland” and the “Deadpool” film franchise.
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