The Amazon drama “One Night in Miami” is based on a play by Kemp Powers, and when producers Jess Wu Calder and Keith Calder saw it on stage they “fell in love with the play really as it was going,” Keith remembers. “We were in tears by the end and reached out to Kemp, the playwright, the next day.” We spoke to the Calders as part of our “Meet the Experts” film producers panel. Watch our interview above.
The film tells a fictionalized story of a gathering between four prominent figures in the Civil Rights Movement: Nation of Islam spokesman Malcolm X (played by Kingsley Ben-Adir), boxer Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), football player Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and singer Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.). Powers adapted his own play for the screen, and he drew on his “treasure trove” of knowledge to flesh out “that deep friendship that they all had with each other,...
The film tells a fictionalized story of a gathering between four prominent figures in the Civil Rights Movement: Nation of Islam spokesman Malcolm X (played by Kingsley Ben-Adir), boxer Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), football player Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and singer Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.). Powers adapted his own play for the screen, and he drew on his “treasure trove” of knowledge to flesh out “that deep friendship that they all had with each other,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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