Filmed mid-pandemic on the Gold Coast and in the Whitsundays, Spiderhead was initially supposed to shoot in the US, but moved to Australia after Hemsworth’s insistence. It’s a common request at this point in his career.
packs a flood of big provocations.
It’s now been expanded into a Netflix film by director Joe Kosinski and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick , who lend an engaging, if silly, popcorn vibe to Saunders’ more ethically loaded considerations. Kosinski’s deft world-building transforms the story into a fun dystopian thriller, one where ’70s and ’80s yacht rock from the likes of The Doobie Brothers and Hall & Oates takes on a sinister mood.
Filmed mid-pandemic on the Gold Coast and in the Whitsundays – a backdrop that lends Spiderhead Penitentiary a unique look, like a tropical Alcatraz –was initially supposed to shoot in the US, but moved to Australia after Hemsworth’s insistence. It’s a common request at this point in his career. It shows the industry sway afforded to the Melbourne-born Hemsworth, 38, as an A-list drawcard who’s proved his pull in some of cinema’s biggest blockbusters . That’s some useful Hollywood power.“It’s not so much power as much as it’s, like, I’m willing for them to move on from me, you know? Which they have done many, many times,” Hemsworth laughs.