Screenwriter Noah Oppenheim said the ending is meant to be a "call to attention and an invitation to a conversation"

What we show in the movie is accurate,” Noah Oppenheim said after Kathryn Bigelow’s Netflix thriller captured a U.S. government response.

According to The New York Times, the president must read a code known as the "nuclear biscuit" from a laminated card they always keep with them. Idris Elba, who plays the president in A House of Dynamite, reads the series of codes in the final minutes of the movie, but his actual commands are never shown.

A memo shared by the Missile Defense Agency stated that the missile “ displayed a 100% accuracy rate in testing for more than a decade .” Noah Oppenheim, the writer of A House of Dynamite, spoke to MSNBC about the same:

Netflixs A House of Dynamite, an American political thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Noah Oppenheim, has drawn worldwide attention since its global release on October 24, 2025.

Kathryn Bigelow has hit back at Pentagon criticism of her new Netflix movie A House of Dynamite, saying she “states the truth”.

Social media is angry with Kathryn Bigelow's nuclear political thriller. But its last moments are shocking and powerful

Writer/Producer, Noah Oppenheim stops by The Discourse podcast to discuss his new Netflix thriller, "A House of Dynamite."

A House of Dynamite (2025) is a thriller movie that tells a story of danger and politics. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Noah Oppenheim.

The most surprising sequence in A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow's white-knuckle nuclear war (or is it?) thriller, comes in the form of a cameo from WNBA superstar Angel Reese. What, you ask, could Angel Reese possibly be doing in A House of Dynamite?