Netflix has released three images from Spiderhead, the upcoming psychological thriller from director Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy, Top Gun: Maverick), which offer a first look at stars Chris Hemsworth, Jurnee Smollett, Miles Teller, and Mark Paguio.
Based on George Saunders’ New Yorker short story, the film stars Hemsworth as a brilliant visionary who runs a state-of-the-art penitentiary, experimenting on its inmates with mind-altering drugs in exchange for commuted sentences.
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.
Spiderhead arrives on Netflix on June 17th.
