Halle Berry’s sci-fi film project The Mothership has been scrapped by Netflix. The movie completed shooting in 2021, but due to multiple delays in post-production, the streaming service decided to ditch it.
The movie was directed by Bridge of Spies writer Matthew Charman, and the film takes place “one year after the husband of Berry’s character mysteriously vanishes from their rural farm. Now a single mother, Sara Morse and her children discover an extraterrestrial object underneath their home. It (hopefully) leads them to discover the truth about the patriarch’s disappearance.”
The Mothership is just the latest in a long line of Hollywood projects to be scrapped after the films have wrapped production. Some of the others include the Warner Bros. movies, Coyote vs. Acme, Batgirl, and Scoob! Holiday Haunt. This is an awful trend that WB started.
Berry has a multi-picture deal with Netflix, and she has another project in development with them, an action film titled The Union, which is about “a construction worker (Mark Wahlberg) who is roped into the espionage world by his former high school girlfriend.” Netflix is also producing her directorial debut for the film Bruised, a sports drama about a disgraced MMA fighter who reconnects with her estranged son and reclaims her power.
For Berry’s sake, I hope those films aren’t scrapped. The Mothership was produced by MRC, the backers of Knives Out, and Automatik were producers of the film.
Source: Variety
