Netflix’s official trailer for Spiderhead finds Chris Hemsworth (Thor: Ragnarok, Extraction) experimenting on prisoners, claiming, “Beautiful people get away with too much. I say that having benefited from time to time.” The lengthy trailer arrived along with an official poster and new photos from the action thriller based on the short story by George Saunders.
In addition to Chris Hemsworth, the cast of what’s described as a “genre-bending and darkly funny psychological thriller” includes Miles Teller (currently killing it in the limited series The Offer), Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country), Mark Paguio (Lonesome), and Tess Haubrich (Treadstone). Top Gun: Maverick‘s helmer Joseph Kosinski directs from a screenplay by Deadpool‘s Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
Chris Hemsworth served as a producer along with Reese, Wernick, Eric Newman, Agnes Chu, Geneva Wasserman, Tommy Harper, and Jeremy Steckler.
Spiderhead premieres on Netflix on June 17, 2022.
The Spiderhead Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
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 takes a twistier turn, as Abnesti’s experiments start to push the limits of free will altogether.