Watch Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis in clip from ‘Get On Up’Posted by Wilson Morales
July 16, 2014
Source: Hitfix
Universal Pictures has released a clip, via Hitfix, from the James Brown biopic “Get On Up,” featuring Chadwick Boseman as James Brown and Viola Davis as his mother.
The Help’s Tate Taylor is directing the film with Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Nelsan Ellis, Lennie James, Jill Scott, Dan Aykroyd, Tika Sumpter, Keith Robinson, Craig Robinson, Aunjanue Ellis, Lennie James, and Julius Tennon.
The film will give a fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of Brown, taking audiences on the journey from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. Davis plays Brown’s mother while Spencer his Aunt Honey. Robinson is Maceo Parker, a funk and soul saxophonist who played with Brown in the 1960s.Brown died in 2006.
Get On Up is scheduled for release on August 1.
Update: Here’s another clip with James Brown and his band
