Production Begins On The Whole Truth With Keanu Reeves, Gugu Mbatha-RawPosted by Wilson Morales
July 11, 2014
Gugu Mbatha-Raw started production this week on Courtney Hunt’s courtroom drama, The Whole Truth, joining Keanu Reeves, Renée Zellweger, Gabriel Bosso and Jim Belushi, who was recently added to the cast.
Written by Nicholas Kazan (Matilda, The Bicentennial Man), Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman and financier PalmStar Entertainment’s Kevin Frakes are producing the film, which started production this week in New Orleans.
Defense attorney Richard Ramsay (Reeves), faces a hopeless case defending seventeen-year old Mike Lassiter (Basso) who’s charged with murdering his wealthy father. The evidence against him is substantial: a knife with his finger prints and a near confession. On top of that, Mike hasn’t spoken a word since the day of the crime. With no information from his client and little to work off of otherwise, Ramsay enlists the help of Janelle (Mbatha-Raw), a young lawyer determined to find out the truth about what happened that day.
Belushi plays Mike’s father while Zellweger plays his mother.
Mbatha-Raw starred earlier this year in Amma Asanta‘s period drama Belle, and will later this fall in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond The Lights.
