Neon Picks Up Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Sundance Film ‘Monsters and Men’Posted by Wilson Morales
January 22, 2018
Source: Deadline
According to Deadline, Neon has just acquired domestic rights to director-writer Reinaldo Marcus Green‘s Sundance Film ‘Monsters and Men.’
The deal was negotiated by the company and Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers. Terms were not disclosed.
The film. which had its world premiere on January 19th in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section, stars John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chanté Adams, Nicole Beharie, Rob Morgan, and Jasmine Cephas Jones.
One night, in front of a bodega in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood, Manny Ortega witnesses a white police officer wrongfully gun down a neighborhood street hustler, and Manny films the incident on his phone. Now he’s faced with a dilemma: release the video and bring unwanted exposure to himself and his family, or keep the video private and be complicit in the injustice?
Green tells the story of how the footage affects the lives of three upstanding men in Bed-Stuy- a young father striving to support his new family, an African American cop dealing with the fallout of his colleague’s mistake, and a star high school athlete who becomes politicized by the incident. Each man is very different, but they equally feel the urgency of the question they must all face: should I take moral action or remain safely on the sidelines? Green provokes viewers to ask themselves the same question?
Elizabeth Lodge Stepp and Josh Penn of The Department of Motion Pictures, Sight Unseen’s Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev and Luca Borghese produced. Executive producers are Sight Unseen’s Leonid Lebedev and Oren Moverman, Chiara Bernasconi, Charles Miller and The Department of Motion Pictures’ Noah Stahl.
