Most authors would jump at the chance to have their book adapted into a Hollywood film. But activist and attorney Bryan Stevenson, who wrote the memoir Just Mercy about his crusade to reform the criminal justice system, says he was prepared to walk away from any movie project that didn't meet certain standards.
"I’d…
Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award winner Viola Davis, Rob Morgan (Just Mercy), and Aisling Franciosi (The Fall) are set to co-star opposite Sandra Bullock in life-after incarceration Netflix film from director Nora Fingscheidt and Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie.
Based on the 3-part British miniseries Unforg…
Based on Bryan Stevenson's book of the same name, Destin Daniel Cretton’s film Just Mercy stars Jamie Foxx as wrongly-convicted death row prisoner Walter McMillian—a man without hope who is facing the electric chair when idealistic young lawyer Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) takes on his case. It's a harrowing and…
According to star Jamie Foxx, the upcoming movie Just Mercyhas the scent of authenticity.
Let us explain. Foxx portrays real-life character Walter McMillian, who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white woman in Monroeville, AL. He was released in 1993 after spending six years on…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first-look clip of Annie Silverstein’s Bull, which is playing in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival that gets underway today. It marks the feature debut of writer-director Silverstein, whose short Skunk won Cannes’ Cinéfondation Prize in 2014.
Rob Morgan, Yolonda Ross and…
EXCLUSIVE: More casting news for Universal’s The Photograph. The Stella Meghie-helmed romantic drama has added Lil Rel Howery, star of Fox’s sitcom Rel, If Beale Street Could Talk’sTeyonah Parris and Daredevil and Luke Cage actor Rob Morgan. The latest additions join Issa Rae, LaKeith Stanfield, Kelvin Harrison Jr.…
EXCLUSIVE:Elisabeth Shue and Rob Morgan, who played one of the leads in the four-time Oscar-nominated Mudbound, has joined the cast of Greyhound for director Aaron Schneider (Get Low).
The Tom Hanks’ starring WWII drama is about an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by captain Ernest Krause in his first…
William Baldwin (The Squid and the Whale, Flatliners) and Jay Abdo (A Hologram for the King, Queen of the Desert) are set to co-star opposite Val Kilmer in the indie comedy 1st Born, from Iranian director Ali Atshani. The film, a Iranian-US joint production, follows young newlywed couple, Iranian born Ben and American…
Rob Morgan has been cast in a recurring role in the Netflix limited period drama series Godless. Written, directed and executive produced by Scott Frank, Godless is a Western set in an 1800s New Mexico mining town. Morgan will play John Randall, joining previously announced cast Jeff Daniels, Jack O’Connell, Merritt…
