Jaden Smith, Liev Schreiber To Star In Slave Film ‘The Good Lord Bird’Posted by Wilson Morales
April 15, 2014
Source: Deadline
Jaden Smith and Liev Schreiber are set to star in The Good Lord Bird, a big-screen adaptation of the 2013 National Book Award winner by James McBride (Miracle At St. Anna, Red Hook Summer).
Deadline reports that the story centers on “Henry “Onion” Shackleford (Smith), a young slave who links up with radical abolitionist John Brown (Schreiber) in 1856 Kansas and travels the nation with Brown’s motley crew of freedom fighters. Story is told with a satirical bent through the eyes of Onion, who wears a dress and is at first mistaken for a girl, as he bears witness to Brown’s historic campaign and encounters the likes of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman en route to the bloody Harper’s Ferry raid that helped spark the Civil War.”
McBride will also produce the film with Schreiber and Brian Taylor. Smith, who teamed with his dad Will Smith in last year’s sci-fi ‘After Earth,’ recently signed on to do the sequel Karate Kid 2 with Jackie Chan. Schreiber was recently Schreiber nominated for a Golden Globe nominee for his leading role on Showtime’s Ray Donovan. He was last on the big screen in Lee Daniels’ The Butler, playing President Lyndon B. Johnson. He also starred in the indie sci-fi thriller The Last Days on Mars.
