{"id":79946,"date":"2017-06-21T22:41:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T22:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2017\/06\/21\/trailer-photos-reginald-hudlins-thurgood-marshall-movie-starring-chadwick-boseman\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:25:39","slug":"trailer-photos-reginald-hudlins-thurgood-marshall-movie-starring-chadwick-boseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/trailer-photos-reginald-hudlins-thurgood-marshall-movie-starring-chadwick-boseman\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer & Photos To Reginald Hudlin\u2019s Thurgood Marshall Movie Starring Chadwick Boseman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trailer & Photos To Reginald Hudlin\u2019s Thurgood Marshall Movie Starring Chadwick Boseman<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

June 21, 2017<\/p>\n

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Open Road Films has released the trailer and images to\u00a0its Supreme Court Justice biopic\u00a0Marshall<\/strong>, with\u00a0<\/em>Chadwick Boseman<\/strong>\u00a0starring in the title role,\u00a0<\/strong>into theaters on October 13.<\/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 wealthy 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 (Josh Gad<\/strong>) 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

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The film also features Downtown Abbey’s Dan Stevens <\/strong>as the prosecutor, James Cromwell, <\/strong>Chicago P.D’s Marina Squerciati<\/strong><\/strong> as Stella Friedman, Keesha Sharp<\/strong> <\/strong>will play Buster Marshall, Thurgood\u2019s wife, <\/strong>and Empire’s Jussie Smollett<\/strong><\/strong> playing 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

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\nThe 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