{"id":80202,"date":"2017-07-19T13:11:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2017\/07\/19\/sony-release-denzel-washingtons-legal-thriller-roman-israel-esq-november-3rd\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:24:53","slug":"sony-release-denzel-washingtons-legal-thriller-roman-israel-esq-november-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/sony-release-denzel-washingtons-legal-thriller-roman-israel-esq-november-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony To Release Denzel Washington&#8217;s Legal Thriller &#8220;Roman Israel, Esq.&#8221; On\u00a0November 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sony To Release Denzel Washington&#8217;s Legal Thriller &#8220;Roman Israel, Esq.&#8221; On\u00a0November 3rd<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n<p>July 19, 2017<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99953\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Roman-Israel-Esq.-cast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-99953\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 260'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Roman-Israel-Esq.-cast-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo, Joseph David-Jones, Amanda Warren\u00a0and Nazneen Contractor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sony Pictures will release<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>writer-director\u00a0<strong>Dan Gilroy<\/strong>\u2019s legal thriller,<strong>\u00a0&#8220;Roman Israel, Esq.,&#8221; starring Denzel Washington <\/strong>on November 3.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Previously known as <strong>&#8220;Inner City,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>the cast also includes\u00a0<strong>Colin Farrell, Joseph David-Jones, Carmen Ejogo, Amanda Warren\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Nazneen Contractor.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sony will distribute the film, which is being co-financed by\u00a0Cross Creek, Lone Star Capital and Charles King\u2019s Macro. Jennifer Fox is producing with Todd Black of Escape Artists and Brian Oliver of Cross Creek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Denzel-Washington-in-Roman-Israel-Esq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-100667\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 249 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Denzel-Washington-in-Roman-Israel-Esq-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story\u00a0centers on an awkward, reclusive lawyer named Roman J. Israel (Washington), who has worked as a legal researcher in Los Angeles for decades.\u00a0When his partner has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on the role of the firm\u2019s frontman. He soon uncovers\u00a0details about the crusading law firm\u2019s history\u00a0that run afoul of his values of helping the poor and dispossessed, and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme action.<\/p>\n<p>Farrell will play the slick, money-focused lawyer who recruits the researcher to his firm, while\u00a0Ejogo plays one of the female leads, a worker at a civil rights organization.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u00a0is cast as an impressionable young lawyer fresh out of grad school who helps Washington with cases.\u00a0Contractor will play an assistant district attorney opposite Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony To Release Denzel Washington&#8217;s Legal Thriller &#8220;Roman Israel, Esq.&#8221; On\u00a0November 3rdPosted by Wilson Morales July 19, 2017 Sony Pictures will release\u00a0writer-director\u00a0Dan Gilroy\u2019s legal thriller,\u00a0&#8220;Roman Israel, Esq.,&#8221; starring Denzel Washington on November 3.\u00a0 Previously known as &#8220;Inner City,&#8221;\u00a0the cast also includes\u00a0Colin Farrell, Joseph David-Jones, Carmen Ejogo, Amanda Warren\u00a0and Nazneen Contractor.\u00a0 Sony will distribute the film, [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/sony-release-denzel-washingtons-legal-thriller-roman-israel-esq-november-3rd\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":80308,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,143],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-read"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sony To Release Denzel Washington&#039;s Legal Thriller &quot;Roman Israel, Esq.&quot; 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