Halle Berry’s Sci-Fi Movie The Mothership Scrapped by Netflix

Netflix has canceled Halle Berry’s sci-fi film, The Mothership.

PEOPLE can confirm that the project has wrapped filming after it was announced in February 2021, but there have been multiple post-production delays. The reshoots would have included the children, who had aged, which was a problem.

The film was written and directed by Matt Charman, who is also a co-writer Bridge of Spiesand the executive producers were Danny Stillman and Berry (57).

According to the film’s logline, Berry played Sara Morse — a woman whose husband mysteriously disappears from their rural farm.

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Halle Berry in ‘The Mothership’.

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“When she discovers a strange, alien object under her house, Sara and her children race to find their husband, their father, and most importantly, the truth,” the diary says.

Berry signed a deal to “star in and produce new films” with Netflix in November 2021. PEOPLE has confirmed that Berry is still working with the streaming media company, and her next project — Union (previously known as Our man from New Jersey)— is still under construction.

IN UnionBerry stars alongside Mark Wahlberg, who plays her high school ex-boyfriend whom she recruits to go “on a high-stakes US intelligence mission,” according to the logline.

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Halle Berry at the Fast Company Innovation Festival.

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Her creative partnership with Netflix was announced shortly after her directorial debut, Bruised, became available for streaming on the platform. According to a press release, it debuted at number one in the US and held the number one spot in 21 countries.

Berry also produced the film and played Jackie Justice, a retired mixed martial artist who returns to the ring after her son re-enters her life.

At the premiere, Berry revealed to PEOPLE why she decided to work on the project.

“I was told a long time ago that if you’re going to direct a story and be a director, especially your first film, it’s best to make it about something you love and something you intrinsically understand. And I love the game of fighting. I understand this world and I understand what it’s like to be a woman struggling to survive,” she told PEOPLE.

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“I know what it’s like to make mistakes and I want another chance,” Berry added. “I know what it’s like to hope for redemption and ask for forgiveness. These are all things that I understand very, very deeply. And those are the themes of this film.”

A representative for Berry did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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