Dave Bautista just can’t get enough of aliens. Or, well, he can, at least in the upcoming film Dreadnought, in which he plays a man who has lost everything (read: his wife) to alien invaders. But they can’t take his dead daughter!
Dreadnought comes from directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott, who also made the underwhelming Bushwick with Bautista. (Writing at RogerEbert.com, Glenn Kenny said, “This movie will lose the goodwill of any longtime New Yorker watching it within the first ten minutes.” This is both a fair and true complaint and not the only thing wrong with the film.) It’s written by Joseph Greenberg, whose previous films have been shorts and one feature he wrote and directed.
As Deadline reports, Dreadnought is about Max (Bautista), “whose world was devastated when an alien species crash-landed on Earth, unleashing a deadly plague that claimed his wife and much of humanity. In the fragile society that remains, humans have learned to coexist with their extraterrestrial invaders. But for Max, survival isn’t enough. … His older daughter, Greta, is dying from the disease. As her body weakens, an alien Sentinel lurks outside their home, drawing nearer and nearer as Greta takes her final breaths. This silent, unyielding predator is on a mission to collect her body to fulfill an unstoppable metamorphosis ritual. The government sanctions it. Society accepts it. But Max refuses to have anything else taken from him.”
Bautista, of course, is known for the Guardians of the Galaxy films, in which he is an alien; he’s also starred in Knock at the Cabin, Dune, and The Killer’s Game (pictured above).
Some interesting names and companies are associated with Dreadnought, including Thunder Road (which produced the John Wick films) and the visual effects company Marz VFX (The Creator, The Umbrella Academy). No release date has been announced.
