{"id":64172,"date":"2012-10-30T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2012\/10\/30\/nicole-beharie-slave-role-in-civil-war-drama-the-keeping-room\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:57:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:57:52","slug":"nicole-beharie-slave-role-in-civil-war-drama-the-keeping-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/nicole-beharie-slave-role-in-civil-war-drama-the-keeping-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Beharie nabs slave role in Civil War drama, The Keeping Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicole Beharie nabs slave role in Civil War drama, The Keeping Room<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

October 30, 2012<\/p>\n

Source: THR<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nicole Behaire, Olivia Wilde,<\/strong> and Hailee Steinfeld<\/strong> will star in The Keeping Room<\/strong>, directed by Daniel Barber <\/strong>and financed by Wind Dancer Films.<\/p>\n

Wind Dancer, the company’s credits include What Women Want<\/strong>, will produce alongside Gilbert Films and Anonymous Content. WME Global arranged financing and will represent North American rights.<\/p>\n

Sierra\/Affinity will shop the project to foreign buyers at the American Film Market, which runs Wednesday through Nov. 7 in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n

Written by Julia Hart<\/strong>, Keeping Room tells the story of three Southern women — two sisters and a slave — who are forced to defend their home from the onslaught of a band of soldiers who have broken off from the Union Army.<\/p>\n

Gilbert Films’ Jordan Horowitz<\/strong> is producing alongside David McFadzean, Judd Payne<\/strong> and Dete Meserve<\/strong>. Gary Gilbert<\/strong> of Gilbert Films and Michael Sugar<\/strong> of Anonymous Content will executive produce, while Anonymous’ Nicole Romano<\/strong> and Trevor Adley<\/strong> will co-produce.<\/p>\n

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“The Keeping Room is a cinematic, thrilling and dangerous piece of material and we could not be more excited with the team has come together to bring this unique story to the screen,” Horowitz said.<\/p>\n

Added Sierra\/Affinity CEO Nick Meyer: “We are thrilled to be part of this special project filled with profound themes. Barber is a talented up-and-coming filmmaker, and we look forward to seeing his vision of the material realized.”<\/p>\n

Tough stories are no stranger to Steinfeld, who starred in True Grit <\/strong>in 2010. Barber, whose credits include Harry Brown<\/strong>, is set to begin principal photography in March in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Behaire, who’s currently co-starring with Lance Gross<\/strong> in Matthew Cherry<\/a><\/strong>‘s The Last Fall <\/a><\/strong>and was last seen opposite Michael Fassbender<\/strong> in Steve McQueen’s Shame<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0 is represented by ICM Partners and ATA Management; Steinfeld by ICM Partners and Anonymous Content; and Wilde by WME and Untitled.<\/p>\n

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