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A House of Dynamite director Kathryn Bigelow reacts to Pentagon ‘inaccuracy’ claims
Kathryn Bigelow has addressed the United States Department of Defense’s criticism of her latest military drama, A House of Dynamite. After the film landed on Netflix last week, it was reported that the Pentagon had sent out an internal memo, warning officials about its depiction of the U.S.’s nuclear missile defense system.
The Netflix film "A House of Dynamite" tells "a vastly different story" about U.S. ability to repel a nuclear attack than real-world testing suggests, according to an internal government memo obtained by Bloomberg.
The U.S. Department of Defense says that while the events that unfurl in Netflix ’s new doomsday political thriller, A House of Dynamite, are certainly gripping on screen, they’re also inaccurate.
A memo shared by the Missile Defense Agency stated that the missile “ displayed a 100% accuracy rate in testing for more than a decade .” Noah Oppenheim, the writer of A House of Dynamite, spoke to MSNBC about the same:
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‘House of Dynamite’ Writer Tells Pentagon Claiming Inaccuracies: “We Respectfully Disagree”
What we show in the movie is accurate,” Noah Oppenheim said after Kathryn Bigelow’s Netflix thriller captured a U.S. government response.
Francisco Lindor comes up quite a bit in A House of Dynamite. The film came out last month and stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, and more.
Kathryn Bigelow's A House of Dynamite ends not with a bang, but a silence that shakes you. As Idris Elba's President faces an impossible nuclear decision, Netflix's political thriller leaves viewers debating what really happened,