Exclusive: Neal McDonough (The Flash) and Casey Cott (Riverdale) will headline the sports drama Black Spartans, written and to be directed by Ben Cory Jones (Insecure), which is heading into production in Atlanta this fall.
Exploring the explosive era of the mid-1960s where social upheaval paved the way for a new order in college football, Jones’ first feature tells the story of the first fully integrated college football team. The film is inspired by the Michigan State Spartans team, coached by Duffy Daugherty, which forever changed the face of the sport.
Jones, McDonough, Cott, David Brown, Rochelle Claerbaut, Ruve McDonough, Justin Oates-Marable and Jimmy V are producing, with Cory Wharton serving as exec producer.
McDonough is an award-winning actor whose film credits include Sonic the Hedgehog, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Red 2, Captain America: The First Avenger, Flags of Our Fathers and more. On the TV side,...
Exploring the explosive era of the mid-1960s where social upheaval paved the way for a new order in college football, Jones’ first feature tells the story of the first fully integrated college football team. The film is inspired by the Michigan State Spartans team, coached by Duffy Daugherty, which forever changed the face of the sport.
Jones, McDonough, Cott, David Brown, Rochelle Claerbaut, Ruve McDonough, Justin Oates-Marable and Jimmy V are producing, with Cory Wharton serving as exec producer.
McDonough is an award-winning actor whose film credits include Sonic the Hedgehog, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Red 2, Captain America: The First Avenger, Flags of Our Fathers and more. On the TV side,...
- 8/15/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Producing team Adam Neutzsky-Wulff and Pauline Inda announced on Wednesday the official launch of their new production company Courageous Content, focusing on thought-provoking, timely and political indies.
Courageous Content has wrapped production on two new features. “All The Little Things We Kill” — a controversial hostage drama about the gun control issue in the U.S., — is seeking the festival route and distribution. The film stars Elizabeth Marvel (“Homeland”), Danielle Brooks (“Orange is the New Black”), Casey Cott (“Riverdale”), Jessica Sula (MTV’s “Scream”) and Scott Cohen (“The Americans”). And “You Are Here” — a drama about a young scientist who rounds up his dysfunctional family in a Malibu mansion to tell them he has terminal cancer — starring Peter Vack (“Mozart in the Jungle”), Anna Popplewell (“The Chronicles of Narnia”), and William Baldwin (“Northern Rescue”).
They currently have two more films in development: a controversial project about a political scandal in Kenya...
Courageous Content has wrapped production on two new features. “All The Little Things We Kill” — a controversial hostage drama about the gun control issue in the U.S., — is seeking the festival route and distribution. The film stars Elizabeth Marvel (“Homeland”), Danielle Brooks (“Orange is the New Black”), Casey Cott (“Riverdale”), Jessica Sula (MTV’s “Scream”) and Scott Cohen (“The Americans”). And “You Are Here” — a drama about a young scientist who rounds up his dysfunctional family in a Malibu mansion to tell them he has terminal cancer — starring Peter Vack (“Mozart in the Jungle”), Anna Popplewell (“The Chronicles of Narnia”), and William Baldwin (“Northern Rescue”).
They currently have two more films in development: a controversial project about a political scandal in Kenya...
- 6/6/2019
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Steven Silver (13 Reasons Why), Nicola Peltz (Transformers: Age of Extinction), and Spencer Neville (Ozark) are set to star in The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, with production slated to commence this week in Los Angeles. Ali LeRoi is directing the indie drama based on a script written by Nigerian-born USC student Stanley Kalu.
Set in Southern California, the film centers on Tunde Johnson (Silver), a queer, black prep school senior who finds himself in an endless loop of police brutality. Soren O’Connor (Neville) is Johnson’s all-American athlete boyfriend who hides his sexuality from both his conservative father and society by maintaining a relationship with Tunde’s best friend Marley Meyers (Peltz).
Producers are Jason Shuman and Zachary Green, co-creators of the million-dollar screenplay competition called The Launch, which selected Kalu’s script as its first winner. Philanthropists Chuck and Marni Bond are also producing.
Silver, who stars as...
Set in Southern California, the film centers on Tunde Johnson (Silver), a queer, black prep school senior who finds himself in an endless loop of police brutality. Soren O’Connor (Neville) is Johnson’s all-American athlete boyfriend who hides his sexuality from both his conservative father and society by maintaining a relationship with Tunde’s best friend Marley Meyers (Peltz).
Producers are Jason Shuman and Zachary Green, co-creators of the million-dollar screenplay competition called The Launch, which selected Kalu’s script as its first winner. Philanthropists Chuck and Marni Bond are also producing.
Silver, who stars as...
- 11/1/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Homeland’s Elizabeth Marvel and Liza Lapira (9Jkl) have joined the recurring cast of Unbelievable, an eight-episode Netflix limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly and Katie Couric.
Co-written by Grant, who will serve as showrunner, Michael Chabon (John Carter) & Ayelet Waldman (Applebaum), Unbelievable is based on The Marshall Project and ProPublica Pulitzer Prize-winning December 2015 article, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and the “This American Life” radio episode about the same case, “Anatomy of Doubt.” It tells the true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.
Details of their characters are not being revealed. They join previously cast Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, Kaitlyn Dever, Danielle MacDonald,...
Co-written by Grant, who will serve as showrunner, Michael Chabon (John Carter) & Ayelet Waldman (Applebaum), Unbelievable is based on The Marshall Project and ProPublica Pulitzer Prize-winning December 2015 article, “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and the “This American Life” radio episode about the same case, “Anatomy of Doubt.” It tells the true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.
Details of their characters are not being revealed. They join previously cast Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, Kaitlyn Dever, Danielle MacDonald,...
- 8/14/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Homeland’s Elizabeth Marvel is set to star in All The Little Things We Kill, an indie that tackles the issue of gun violence, directed by Adam Neutzsky-Wulff. Danielle Brooks (Orange Is The New Black), Guillermo Diaz (Scandal), Casey Cott (Riverdale), and Rj Mitte (Breaking Bad) also star in the Frankie Kl-penned pic. Marvel will play well-liked history/government professor at a local community college who unexpectedly takes her class hostage in an effort to force a Senator to pass a Gun Control Bill that he’d promised to enact after a school shooting seven years ago left her daughter dead. Neutzsky-Wulff and Kl are producing the project with Sara Victoria Pedersen. Marvel, who will next be seen in Netflix film The Land of Steady Habits, with Ben Mendelson, is repped by Innovative.
Bryce Durfee has been cast in the indie film Foreign Exchange, joining Teri Polo and Dylan Walsh.
Bryce Durfee has been cast in the indie film Foreign Exchange, joining Teri Polo and Dylan Walsh.
- 4/30/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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