Netflix cancels Halle Berry’s sci-fi mystery The Mothership before it has even aired
The movie completed filming, but never made it out of post-production…
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It looks like the image above is the only frame you’ll see of the Halle Berry sci-fi movieThe Mothership.While filming wrapped some time ago back in 2021, the movie is no longer coming to thebest streaming service.
According toVariety, Netflix has decided to cancel the movie “after multiple delays in post-production” prevented its completion.PEOPLEmagazine adds that one of the problems was that it required reshoots, and those reshoots needed to bring back child actors who have grown visibly older since their scenes were originally shot.
This isn’t the first movie in recent years to be canned after filming was completed. Warner Bros. has wielded the ax against the $90 millionBatgirlmovie, the amazing-looking John Cena comedyCoyote vs. Acme, and the Scooby-Doo movieScoob!Holiday Haunt.
Halle Berry is still making movies for Netflix
PEOPLE has checked with Berry’s, er, people to confirm that the star is still working withNetflixon other previously announced projects includingThe Union, formerly known asOur Man From New Jersey, in which she stars alongside Mark Wahlberg in a “high stakes US Intelligence mission”. The film is part of an ongoing partnership that began with Berry’s directorial debutBruised, a sports drama about a disgraced MMA fighter reconnecting with her son and reclaiming her mojo.
It does seem like this particular cancellation was due to circumstances beyond anybody’s control. There’s not a lot you can do about child stars growing up unless you want to run the risk of falling into the uncanny valley withdigital de-aging, a process that still costs a fortune – studio execs reportedly spent $100 million digitally de-aging Harrison Ford forIndiana Jones 5to mixed reviews – and produces imperfect results. But it perhaps says a lot about the state of the streaming movie industry that our reaction to the news wasn’t just “oh no!” but “oh no! Not another one!”.
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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.
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