Octavia Spencer to star with Kevin Costner in Mike Binder’s Black and WhitePosted by Wilson Morales
May 8, 2013
Source: IM Global
Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer (The Help) will co-star with Kevin Coster in Black and White, a film that re-teams two-time Academy Award winner Costner (Man of Steel, The Upside of Anger) with acclaimed writer, director and actor Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger, Reign Over Me).
Binder’s engrossing drama focuses on attorney Elliot Anderson (Costner) who is widowed after the car crash death of his wife. Elliot has raised his bi-racial granddaughter Eloise since his daughter died in childbirth. As he struggles with his grief, Elliot’s world is turned upside-down when the child’s African American grandmother Rowena (Spencer) demands that Eloise be brought under the care of her father Reggie, a drug addict who Elliot blames for the negligence that led to the death of his own daughter. Elliot finds himself deeply entrenched in a custody battle and will stop at nothing to keep his granddaughter from coming under the watch of his reckless son-in-law. BLACK AND WHITE is a searing portrayal of a broken man caught up in a struggle clouded by bitterness, blame and racial tension who learns to forgive and how to provide for the only family he has left.
Based on Binder’s own script, and is a co-production of Costner’s Treehouse Productions and Binder’s Sunlight Productions, along with Todd Lewis. Cassian Elwes is onboard as an executive producer. Principal photography begins this summer in New Orleans.
