The Wrap is reporting that George Nolfi’s The Banker, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult and Nia Long, a fact based drama written by Nolfi and Niceole Levy, will be released by Apple on the company’s upcoming Apple TV+. T
The story follows two African American entrepreneurs, Bernard Garrett (Mackie) and Joe Morris (Jackson), who spent the 1950s trying to circumvent racial limitations by recruiting a working class white guy named Matt Steiner (Hoult) and training him to pose as the head of their business. At the same time, they posed as a janitor and a chauffeur.
Bernard’s wife Eunice (Nia Long), plays a key role in setting up the enterprise with the pair becoming two of the wealthiest and most successful real estate owners in the country with Steiner as their front man. Their success soon brings about unforeseen risk of exposure that threatens everything.
Brad Feinstein produced the film.
This is the latest film to join the tech giant following the acquisitions of Sundance selections Hala and the Elephant Queen, the animated film Wolfwalkers from Tom Moore, and the Sofia Coppola-directed On the Rocks from A24.
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