The Mothership: Netflix canceled Halle Berry's new film

At the beginning of 2022, Netflix announced an ambitious package of feature films that it had launched . There were 39 titles that included stars of the caliber of Jamie Foxx, Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron , involved in all kinds of films, ranging from drama, to police and adventure. In that extensive list of feature films was The Mothership , a science fiction thriller that starred Halle Berry . However, and with the film practically finished, the streaming platform decided to cancel it.

The feature film followed the odyssey of Sara Morse (Halle Berry), a woman who lives in a country house with her husband and two children, and whose life changes suddenly after the inexplicable disappearance of her partner. Sara is left alone in charge of her two children, and seeks to be the emotional support for those little ones, who do not understand why her father is no longer here. But the life of that family will take an extraordinary turn when the woman finds buried beneath her house a mysterious artifact that could be of extraterrestrial origin. Convinced that there is some kind of connection between both phenomena, and with the CIA hot on her heels, she begins a search that will end up giving her more questions than answers.

The director in charge of The Mothership was Matthew Charman , a screenwriter nominated for an Oscar for his script for Bridge of Spies , and who here took charge of the making of a film for the first time. Although the feature film had been announced for release in 2023, the absence of news linked to this project caught the attention of the public who were waiting for Halle Berry's new work. And after much silence about it, The Insneider portal confirmed the news of its cancellation .

The film had a modest budget, ranging around forty million dollars, a low sum compared to other Hollywood titles. And this science fiction thriller, which combined elements in the vein of The X-Files , began to have unforeseen expenses that culminated in its cancellation.

Despite being almost finished, but given the need to re-record several scenes and the expense that this entails, Netflix decided to cancel the film. Bearing in mind that filming took place two years ago, the biggest problem was that the actors who played the protagonist's children had already grown significantly, and re-filming meant using some type of visual effect to disguise the passage of time. time in children. This factor, added to the constant delays of Matthew Charman in charge of post-production, bogged down the progress of the project, and for that reason the streaming platform decided to give the thumbs down to this Halle Berry film, which will never see the light of day.

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