By Dustin Rowles | Film | February 1, 2024 |
By Dustin Rowles | Film | February 1, 2024 |
Earlier this week, we learned that Netflix had scrapped plans to release a Halle Berry film called Mothership that had finished filming in 2021. Many assumed that Netflix had pulled a Zazlav and had Batgirl’d the film, which had experienced several delays in post-production.
Not so, as it turns out. This was pulled by mutual agreement between Netflix, the film’s producers, and even Halle Berry herself. The film was about a single mother, played by Berry, who discovers a mysterious alien object underneath their home on a rural farm a year after her husband’s disappearance.
“Everyone felt it was the right thing not to release it and to do something else together eventually,” said the interim head of Netflix films, Bela Bajaria, according to The Wrap. Details were scant other than to cite production issues. The film was set to be the directorial debut of Matthew Charman, the screenwriter of Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies.
Given the historically inconsistent quality of Netflix original movies, Mothership might have been especially bad. Berry is set to appear in another Netflix film, The Union, with Mark Wahlberg and J.K. Simmons, as well as Alexandre Aja’s horror film Never Let Me Go.
via The Wrap