{"id":75400,"date":"2016-04-17T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2016\/04\/17\/official-trailer-to-hbos-all-the-way-with-bryan-cranston-as-lbj\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:28:42","slug":"official-trailer-to-hbos-all-the-way-with-bryan-cranston-as-lbj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/official-trailer-to-hbos-all-the-way-with-bryan-cranston-as-lbj\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Trailer To HBO’s All The Way With Bryan Cranston As LBJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

Official Trailer To HBO’s All The Way With Bryan Cranston As LBJ<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

April 17, 2016<\/p>\n

\"Bryan-Cranston-LBJ-All-the-Way1\"<\/a>HBO Films has released\u00a0the official\u00a0trailer to All The Way<\/strong>, which is scheduled to debut Saturday, May 21 at 8:00 p.m. (ET\/PT)<\/strong>, exclusively on HBO.<\/p>\n

Bryan Cranston<\/strong> reprises his Tony-winning role in All The Way, a riveting behind-the-scenes look at President Lyndon B. Johnson<\/strong>\u2019s tumultuous first year in office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Staking his presidency on what would be an historic, unprecedented Civil Rights Act, Johnson finds himself caught between the moral imperative of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the expectations of the southern Democratic Party leaders who brought Johnson to power.<\/p>\n

All The Way is directed by Jay Roach<\/strong> from a screenplay by Robert Schenkkan<\/strong>, who adapted his Tony-winning play of the same name. Co-starring with Cranston are Anthony Mackie<\/strong> (Martin Luther King), Melissa Leo<\/strong> (Lady Bird Johnson), Bradley Whitford<\/strong> (Hubert Humphrey) and Frank Langella<\/strong> (Sen. Richard Russell).<\/p>\n

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Additional cast members include Joe Morton<\/strong> (Roy Wilkins), Stephen Root<\/strong> (J. Edgar Hoover), Marque Richardson<\/strong> (Bob Moses), Aisha Hinds<\/strong> (Fanny Lou Hamer), Todd Weeks<\/strong> (Walter Jenkins), Mo McRae<\/strong> (Stokely Carmichael) and Spencer Garrett<\/strong> (Walter Reuther).<\/p>\n

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The 2014 Broadway production of \u201cAll the Way,\u201d starring Cranston, swept the awards season, winning Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Tony awards, as well as the Steinberg\/American Theater Critics Award, the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Award and Boston\u2019s Elliot Norton Award. The play also set Broadway box- office records twice for biggest weekly gross of a new play (non-musical).<\/p>\n

The film was produced for HBO by Amblin Television, Tale Told Productions and Moonshot Entertainment, with Steven Spielberg, Robert Schenkkan, Jay Roach, Bryan Cranston, Darryl Frank<\/strong> and Justin Falvey<\/strong> executive producing.<\/p>\n