Trailer For ‘White Boy Rick’ Starring Matthew McConaugheyPosted by Wilson Morales
June 4, 2018
Studio 8 & Columbia Pictures (Sony) have released the trailer for the upcoming crime drama White Boy Rick, starring Matthew McConaughey and newcomer Richie Merritt as Richard Wershe, Sr. and Jr.
Based on true events, White Boy Rick is set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, and tells the moving story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, who became an undercover informant and later a drug dealer, before he was dropped by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.
White Boy Rick stars newcomer Richie Merritt as Ricky Wershe Jr., and Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) as Ricky’s father, Richard Wershe Sr.
White Boy Rick also features Oscar nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rory Cochrane as the FBI agents who begin working with Rick as a confidential informant, and Brian Tyree Henry as narcotics detective Officer Jackson; two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern as Rick’s grandfather, Ray Wershe; three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie as Rick’s grandmother, Verna Wershe; Bel Powley as Rick’s sister, Dawn; Jonathan Majors as Johnny Curry; Rapper YG as Leo Curry; RJ Cyler as Rudell Curry; Taylour Paige as Cathy Volsan; and Kyanna Simone Simpson as Brenda.
The film is directed by Yann Demange (’71), from script by Andy Weiss and Logan & Noah Miller. The film is being produced by John Lesher, Julie Yorn, Darren Aronofsky and Scott Franklin. Executive producers are Georgia Kacandes, Ari Handel, Matthew Krul, Christopher Mallick, Michael J. Weiss, Logan Miller and Noah Miller.
White Boy Rick will hit theaters September 14.
