Ahead of its release next week, Netflix has shared the first official clip from Spiderhead, an upcoming psychological sci-fi thriller based on George Saunders' acclaimed short story for The New Yorker, Escape from Spiderhead.
The promo offers a sneak preview of Steve Abnesti (Chris Hemsworth) testing out one of his unorthodox treatment methods. His test subjects are Jeff (Miles Teller) and Heather (Tess Haubrich), two of his prisoners who suddenly find themselves really feeling the heat of the moment...
Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski is at the helm with a cast headlined by Thor: Love and Thunder star Chris Hemsworth, who is set to play a brilliant prison visionary named Steve Abnesti. In his futuristic prisons, inmates sign on to wear surgically attached devices that administer dosages of mind-altering drugs in exchange for commuted sentences.
Rounding out the cast are Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick; Fantastic Four) and Primetime Emmy-nominee Jurnee Smollett (Birds of Prey; Lovecraft Country). It's their characters who will form a special connection and set the events of the film in motion as Abnesti's shady experiments begin to push the limits of free will.
Spiderhead starts streaming, exclusively on Netflix, on June 17.
In a state-of-the-art penitentiary run by brilliant visionary Steve Abnesti (Chris 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 (Miles Teller) and Lizzy (Jurnee 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. Based on The New Yorker short story by George Saunders, SPIDERHEAD is a genre-bending and darkly funny psychological thriller directed by Joseph Kosinski (TRON: Legacy, Top Gun: Maverick) and written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland).