Watching Netflix's Mute Is Like Counting Electric Sheep

Netflix is the place where dreams come true. Or, in the case of Duncan Jones' Mute, where they go to die. Jones has been working on the film, a noir-inflected science-fiction thriller set in a dystopian future Berlin, since even before he made his feature debut with 2009's Moon--and talking it up ever since. But it seemed destined to be one of those projects that was forever just around the corner, always the movie Jones was making after the next one. Even an attempt to more cost-effectively turn the story into a graphic novel fizzled, although Jones released an image from the illustrated work in progress in 2013.