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About That Popular 'Black Films Don't Sell ...Watch First Footage From Lee Daniels' First Post-"Precious" Directorial Effort "The Paperboy"
No trailer yet, but here's your first look (other than the poster) at Lee Daniels' first post-Precious project that's actually gone through production.
He’s certainly been stacking up the projects over the last couple of years, since Precious - Selma, Miss Saigon, Iced, Anna In The Tropics, The Butler, and more, including, most recently, The Paperboy, based on an award-winning novel of the same name, written by Pete Dexter.
Described as a thriller, the synopsis for The Paperboy, courtesy of Amazon.com, reads: “W.W. (“World War”) James is editor of the Moat County (Florida) Tribune and the father of two boys. Ward, the elder, is a reporter for the Miami Times. Jack is a college dropout who delivers papers for his father. With his reporting partner Yardley Acheman, Ward returns to Moat County to investigate the murder of the sheriff and the subsequent trial of Hillary Van Wetter, who was imprisoned for the murder. The investigation calls Van Wetter’s guilt into question, and he is freed from death row. But at what price?”
When initially reported, Lee Daniels was said to have made offers to Bradley Cooper (as the older brother Ward), Sofia Vergara (as the wife of a death-row inmate) and Alex Pettyfer (as the younger brother Jack) to star in the film.
That cast later changed to Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire and Zac Efron, with Sofia Vergara being the only actor from the original roundup still involved.
But then Maguire and Sofia dropped out; the latter was replaced by Nicole Kidman.
And then, finally, it was announced that John Cusack would be taking over the role that Tobey Maguire was scheduled to play, with Brit actor David Oyelowo, who you may recall has long been attached to play Martin Luther King Jr in Lee Daniels' Selma, joining the cast, in which he plays a character named Yardley, described as "a journalist who teams with another writer (McConaughey) to investigate a murder conviction for a death row inmate (Cusack) in Florida."
An interesting note... described as a "sexual thriller," author Pete Dexter has apparently been working on an adaptation of the novel with Pedro Almodovar for a number of years, before Daniels stepped in; although it appears Almodovar is still attached as producer.
The film should be out in 2012, and I'm looking forward to seeing what more Daniels is capable of.
Watch clip below; poster underneath (I suspect a trailer will turn up soon next):
4 Comments
Mekisha Hale | May 11, 2012 1:34 AM
It has an independent flair to it and it looks authentic to the story as was described in this description in the article. Just as good as the film looks the story is just as interesting with talented actors John Cusack and Matthew McConaughey,Nicole Kidman.
With that talent you can't go wrong I think that Director Lee Daniels is becoming the most sort after directors around who has so many project in line it's going to be a busy time for Lee Daniels.
Tamara | May 10, 2012 8:17 PM
Cool, cool.
Canopy Jones | May 10, 2012 12:16 PM
Oh, I didn't know we Floridians sounded like that. #wedon't
Adam Scott Thompson | May 10, 2012 11:37 AM
I look forward to seeing more. Sidebar: That poster is kinda ill! If this was just a random DVD at the Redbox I'd still be intrigued enough to cop it.