MUTE (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Alexander Skarsgård (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), Paul Rudd (Ant-Man), Justin Theroux (The Girl On The Train), Seyneb Saleh (Offroad), Nikki Lamborn (film debut), Ulf Herman (film debut), Florence Kasumba (Black Panther), Gilbert Owuor (Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You), Daniel Fathers (Pontypool), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Robert Sheehan (Killing Bono), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Anja Karmanski (Dinosaurier)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Duncan Jones (Moon), director, writer; Michael Robert Johnson (Pompeii) and Damon Peoples (film debut), writers; Stuart Fenegan (Warcraft: The Beginning), producer; Clint Mansell (Black Swan), composer; Gary Shaw (Ill Manors), cinematographer; Barrett Heathcote (Too Much Too Young) and Laura Jennings (Edge of Tomorrow), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the near future, a mute bartender (Skarsgård) searches the crime-ridden streets of Berlin for his girlfriend (Saleh), and finds himself entangled in a web of mystery and criminal conspiracy…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Duncan Jones is back to doing the kind of gritty sci-fi that first put him on the map, with this long-anticipated continuation of the world established in his feature debut Moon.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2018 (EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX)

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