From the announcement, to the revelation of further details and the publication of a first trailer, to the final release date – that’s usually a long, long time during which the anticipation for a film (or a series) often increases immeasurably. Until you finally get the chance to see the end result with your own eyes. But recently, in some cases, this is exactly what never happens.
In 2022, Warner Bros. shocked. many comic book fans in particular by scrapping ‘Batgirl’, which was already in the can. Moreover, because a lack of quality should not be the cause. The $90 million superhero film from ‘Bad Boys 3’ makers Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi simply no longer fits in with Warner and DC’s new direction. A bitter pill that some science fiction fans now have to swallow: Netflix will “The Mothership“don’t publish.
Like Hollywood insiders Jeff Sneider now in his newsletter revealed, the streaming giant is canceling the film, which was already filmed in 2021. After Netflix included the sci-fi drama about a mysterious alien abduction in the XXL trailer for its (at the time) upcoming 2022 highlights, no independent trailer was ever released – let alone the film itself, which would should now remain that way.
Too extensive reshoots
The reason given is that the reshoots were too extensive, which would be necessary to make the film Matt Charman to actually be included in the program on the platform. It would have been the directorial debut of Charman, who is best known as the screenwriter of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Bridge Of Spies – The Negotiator’ and the spy series ‘Treason’.
About the collaboration between the main actress Halle Berry and Netflix probably won’t change this for a while. The Oscar winner (for ‘Monster’s Ball’) celebrated her directorial debut with the MMA drama ‘Bruised’ at the red ‘N’ and will soon also be seen in the action thriller ‘Our Man From Jersey’ aka ‘The Union’ by Mark. Wahlberg – which Netflix will hopefully actually publish…
That was “The Mothership”
In ‘The Mothership’, Berry would play Sara Morse, whose husband (Omari Hardwick, ‘Army Of The Dead’) one day disappears without a trace from their shared farm. Together with her children (Quinn McPherson and Jaiden J. Smith), she investigates the case – and eventually finds an alien object under her house. Was the father of her children actually abducted by aliens?
If you were already looking forward to ‘The Mothership’ and are now trying to accept that you will probably never see it, we would at least like to point out the films and series on Netflix that have been announced for next February: Nothing should come between them …