--- description: Netflix has a slate of 10 original heading going into 2017, a number that will likely increase with film festival acquisitions. title: Here Are Netflix's Original Movies Streaming in 2017 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here Are Netflix's Original Movies Streaming in 2017  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 14, 2023 4:24 PM CUTPublished: Dec 27, 2016 12:00 PM CUT  by [Eliza Berman](/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 14, 2023 4:24 PM CUTPublished: Dec 27, 2016 12:00 PM CUT The first thing to know about [Netflix’s](http://time.com/4599413/the-oa-netflix-show/ "undefined") slate of [original movies](http://time.com/4194103/netflix-original-movies-streaming-2016/ "undefined") for 2017 is that it’s almost definitely incomplete. If 2016 is any indication, the streaming service will be active on the [film festival circuit](http://time.com/4193759/netflix-amazon-streaming-services-sundance-film-festival/ "undefined"), acquiring the kind of [indie fare](http://time.com/4200767/sundance-2016-biggest-movies/ "undefined") that these days has more trouble securing a strictly theatrical release. But even without acquiring additional movies, Netflix already has a full slate of nearly a dozen original films with stars as big as Will Smith, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and Jennifer Hudson. Here are the movies the streaming service will serve up in 2017. **MORE** [Netflix Just Announced Premiere Dates for 12 Original Shows](http://time.com/4664108/netflix-announces-2017-premiere-dates/ "undefined") ### _David Brent: Life on the Road_ (Feb. 10) Ricky Gervais reprises his role as the perpetually cringe-inducing David Brent from _The Office_ (the British one) in a mock-documentary in which he pursues his a lifelong dream of rock stardom. His quest for approval, one can only assume, will likely be about as successful as his misguided ploys for adoration as a paper company middle manager. ### _The Discovery_ (March 31) This futuristic love story is set in the year after the afterlife is scientifically proven. Written and directed by Charlie McDowell, who also helmed 2014’s disquieting romantic thriller _The One I Love_, _The Discovery_ boasts an impressive cast that includes Jason Segel, Rooney Mara, Robert Redford, Jesse Plemons and Riley Keough. If you need a fix on afterlife love stories in the meantime, check out _Black Mirror_ Season 3 episode “[San Junipero](http://time.com/4574935/top-10-tv-episodes-2016/ "undefined").” ### _Sandy Wexler_ (April 14) Netflix is halfway through its exclusive four-movie deal with Adam Sandler, and things are not going well. _The Ridiculous 6_ faced [immense](http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/125/560/679/ "undefined") [criticism](http://mashable.com/2015/04/23/native-american-actors-adam-sandler-movie/#EKaTLAIbmsqT "undefined") for its portrayal of Native Americans and currently stands at a 0% rating on _Rotten Tomatoes_. _The Do-Over_ didn’t do much to correct course. Next up is _Sandy Wexler_, a comedy about a talent manager who falls in love with a singer he discovers. Track record aside, it has Jennifer Hudson going for it, so that’s something. ### _War Machine_ (May 26) Brad Pitt plays General Stanley McChrystal in this adaptation of journalist Michael Hastings’ 2012 bestseller _The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan_. Hastings’ 2010 _Rolling Stone_ profile of McChrystal, which portrayed him as disrespectful to top government officials and living a rock-star lifestyle, ultimately led to his resignation. The movie also stars Ben Kingsley, Topher Grace and _Atlanta_ star Keith Stanfield. ### _Bright_ (December) After a divisive outing with this summer’s _Suicide Squad_, director David Ayer and Will Smith re-team for _Bright_, an action-thriller that imagines a Los Angeles in which humans, Orcs and other fantastical creatures coexist. Smith plays a human cop partnered with an Orc cop (Joel Edgerton), and the pair gets mixed up in a turf war in South Central. Although little more has been offered up on the plot, we’re guessing these gang wars are of the intraspecies variety. ### _Okja_ (June 28) Fans of _Snowpiercer_, rejoice: South Korean writer-director Bong Joon-Ho reunites with Tilda Swinton for this adventure story about a young girl who faces off with a multi-national company that wants to kidnap her best friend. That best friend, Okja, is a gigantic animal, the species of which is still under wraps. Jake Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins, Paul Dano and _The Walking Dead_’s Steven Yeun costar. ### _Mute_ (TBA) Writer-director Duncan Jones is best known (aside from being David Bowie’s son) for otherworldly fare: two of his three previous credits—_Moon_ and _Warcraft: The Beginning_—take place far from Earth. His next movie is set much closer to home (a near-future Berlin), albeit in that city’s seedy underworld, where a mute man with a violent history (Alexander Skarsgård) goes searching for his missing girlfriend. ### _Our Souls at Night_ (TBA) It’s been decades since Robert Redford and Jane Fonda played opposite one another as romantic leads—in _The Electric Horseman_ (1979), _The Chase_ (1966) and, most famously, _Barefoot in the Park_ (1967). In _Our Souls at Night_, they play neighbors—he a widower, she a widow—who discover each other in the autumn of their lives. Director Ritesh Batra’s first feature, _The Lunchbox_, was a hit among arthouse crowds. ### _Naked_ (TBA) In this comedy, Marlon Wayans experiences a kind of _Groundhog Day_ phenomenon, but at a particularly inopportune moment: his wedding day. Wracked with nerves before the vows, he wakes up naked in an elevator on the big day and must relive the hour before the ceremony over and over until he sorts out the source of his anxiety. ### _Death Note_ (TBA) Nat Wolff stars in this adaptation of a Japanese manga series, which centers on a high schooler who finds a notebook that allows its bearer to kill any person by conjuring an image of their face. He gets drunk on his newfound power, and thrills ensue. Keith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe costar. ### _First They Killed My Father_ (TBA) Angelina Jolie directs this adaptation, which she also wrote, of Loung Ung’s memoir, _First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers_. The book tells the harrowing story of Ung’s family’s ordeal during the reign of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, during which a quarter of Cambodia’s population was killed in a genocide that targeted professionals, intellectuals and government employees, like Ung’s father. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4595553/netflix-original-movies-streaming-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4595553/netflix-original-movies-streaming-2017/"},"headline":"Here Are Netflix's Original Movies Streaming in 2017","datePublished":"2016-12-27T12:00:37.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T16:24:43.000Z","description":"From Brad Pitt as a general to Marlon Wayans naked in an elevator","url":"https://time.com/4595553/netflix-original-movies-streaming-2017/","keywords":["movies","Netflix","streaming"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4595553/netflix-original-movies-streaming-2017/","name":"Here Are Netflix's Original Movies Streaming in 2017"}}]}] ```