{"id":76026,"date":"2016-06-09T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2016\/06\/09\/open-road-marshall-film-chadwick-boseman\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T03:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:02:49","slug":"open-road-marshall-film-chadwick-boseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/open-road-marshall-film-chadwick-boseman\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Road Picks Up Reginald Hudlin\u2019s Thurgood Marshall Movie Starring Chadwick Boseman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open Road Picks Up Reginald Hudlin\u2019s Thurgood Marshall Movie Starring Chadwick Boseman<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

June 8, 2016<\/p>\n

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

\"Chadwick<\/a><\/p>\n

Open Road Films has picked up the U.S. rights to \u201cMarshall,\u201d<\/strong> starring Chadwick Boseman<\/strong> as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall<\/strong> and Josh Gad<\/strong> as lawyer Sam Friedman, reports Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Directed by Oscar nominee Reginald Hudlin<\/strong> (producer of \u201cDjango Unchained\u201d), the courtroom thriller is based on a true incident in the life of Thurgood Marshall.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0wealthy socialite named Eleanor Strubing (Kate Hudson<\/strong>) accuses her black chauffeur Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown<\/strong>) of rape. A young Jewish lawyer named Sam Friedman (Gad) took the case to defend Spell. In need of a high profile victory but muzzled by a segregationist court, the NAACP sent a young Thurgood Marshall (Boseman) to help with the case. Friedman helps make it possible for Marshall to represent the client in the State of Connecticut, where the trial occurred. Marshall and Friedman struggle against a hostile storm of fear and prejudice, driven to discover the truth in the sensationalized trial which helped set the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement to come.<\/p>\n

\"Marshall<\/a><\/p>\n

The film also features Downtown Abbey’s\u00a0Dan Stevens <\/strong>as the prosecutor, James Cromwell, <\/strong>Chicago P.D’s Marina Squerciati<\/strong><\/strong> as Stella Friedman,\u00a0Keesha Sharp<\/strong> <\/strong>will play\u00a0Buster Marshall, Thurgood\u2019s wife, <\/strong>and Empire’s Jussie Smollett<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0playing Langston Hughes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MARSHALL focuses on a provocative case in the early career of one of America\u2019s greatest legal minds. The film is financed by China-based Super Hero Films, Ltd. with Paula Wagner<\/strong> (\u201cMission Impossible,\u201d \u201cThe Last Samurai\u201d) producing through her Chestnut Ridge Productions banner. Additional producers include Hudlin, Jonathan Sanger<\/strong> (\u201cThe Elephant Man\u201d), and Super Hero Films\u2019 Jun Dong<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Jussie<\/a><\/p>\n

The screenplay for MARSHALL is a unique collaboration between renowned trial lawyer, Michael Koskoff<\/strong>, and his son, screenwriter Jacob Koskoff<\/strong> (The Weinstein Company\u2019s \u201cMacbeth\u201d).<\/p>\n

MARSHALL is being produced with the full support of the Thurgood Marshall and Samuel Friedman estates, including their children, John W. Marshall and Lauren Friedman.<\/p>\n

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