Get your sunnies on — we have an exclusive image from Duncan Jones’ new film Mute, and it’s another neon-drenched dazzler. The man behind Moon, Source Code and Warcraft is bringing his latest picture to Netflix after a long-gestating production that could have seen it become his debut work. Set in a futuristic version of Berlin, Mute is a sci-fi-inflected noir starring Alexander Skarsgård as Leo, a formerly-Amish mute who turns private eye to track down his girlfriend through the German capital when she goes missing.
While the film's intensely colourful visuals are instantly eye-catching, Jones is keen to stress that its human story is grounded and gritty. “It’s not about saving the world,” he told Empire. “It’s a small thriller, in the same way that Casablanca was. It’s the very small story of two people, how they exist and how their story unfolds within this very different, alien-feeling world.”
For more pictures from the film, as well as Jones talking about why he’d love to work with 2000 AD and how Mute nods to his dad, David Bowie, pick up the latest issue of Empire when it hits the shelves on Thursday January 25. Mute arrives on Netflix on February 23, with Skarsgard starring alongside a near-unrecognizable Justin Theroux and Paul Rudd with an outlandish moustache.
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