Netflix cancels Halle Berry’s sci-fi thriller The Mothership due to multiple post-production delays

Halle Berry’s The Mothership has become the latest victim in a Hollywood trend of canceling completed movies and having them taken off the release schedule.

Principal photography was completed back in August 2021, though the film underwent numerous post-production delays, via The Insneider. 

The film was still in need of extensive reshoots, and one of the issues was the children in the movie have aged significantly since filming wrapped. 

The Mothership followed Berry’s character Sara Morse, whose husband mysteriously vanishes without a trace from their rural farm.

Once year after the disappearance, Morse finds an extraterrestrial object under the family’s home, and she and her kids try to find the truth about his disappearance.

Halle Berry 's The Mothership has become the latest victim in a Hollywood trend of canceling completed movies and having them taken off the release schedule

Halle Berry ‘s The Mothership has become the latest victim in a Hollywood trend of canceling completed movies and having them taken off the release schedule

The Mothership followed Berry's character Sara Morse, whose husband mysteriously vanishes without a trace from their rural farm

The Mothership followed Berry’s character Sara Morse, whose husband mysteriously vanishes without a trace from their rural farm

The film also stars Molly Parker, Omari Hardwick, John Ortiz, Sydney Lemmon, Colin O’Brien and Paul Guilfoyle.

Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies, Treason) wrote the script and was making his directorial debut on the project.

Brian Kavanagh-Jones and Fred Berger were producing through Automatik, with Berry executive producing alongside Gemma Levinson and Daniel M. Stillman.

The project was first announced in February 2021 with Berry attached to star and MRC financing the film.

Production got under way in June 2021 in Boston and wrapped in August 2021, starting the arduous post-production process.

Just a few months later in November 2021, Berry signed a deal with Netflix to star in and produce films for the streamer, just after her directorial debut Bruised premiered as the top U.S. film on their charts.

Berry has yet to comment publicly on the cancelation of her new film, though she will stay in business with Netflix even beyond her deal with them.

She will next be seen in Netflix’s The Union, starring alongside Mark Wahlberg, Mike Colter and J.K. Simmons, which is in post-production.

Brian Kavanagh-Jones and Fred Berger were producing through Automatik, with Berry executive producing alongside Gemma Levinson and Daniel M. Stillman

Brian Kavanagh-Jones and Fred Berger were producing through Automatik, with Berry executive producing alongside Gemma Levinson and Daniel M. Stillman

The project was first announced in February 2021 with Berry attached to star and MRC financing the film

The project was first announced in February 2021 with Berry attached to star and MRC financing the film

Just a few months later in November 2021, Berry signed a deal with Netflix to star in and produce films for the streamer, just after her directorial debut Bruised premiered as the top U.S. film on their charts

Just a few months later in November 2021, Berry signed a deal with Netflix to star in and produce films for the streamer, just after her directorial debut Bruised premiered as the top U.S. film on their charts

The Mothership is just the latest in a surprising trend of studios and streamers refusing to released fully completed or nearly completed projects.

The trend started with David Zaslav at Warner Bros. shelved their $90 million Batgirl movie, which was fully completed and awaiting release.

The studio also canceled the animated film Scoob Holiday Haunt and the live-action/animated hybrid Coyote Vs. Acme, starring John Cena, Lana Condor and Will Forte. 

After Coyote Vs. Acme was canceled, Texas Representative Joaquin Castro even called for the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate. 

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