Sterling K. Brown is in talks to star in the inspirational sports drama Rise.
The Emmy winner will play Willie Davis, a janitor at a Louisiana middle school who took over the boys' basketball program — which was in danger of being canceled due to lack of funds — and led the team to the state championship. Davis' real-life story has been covered in HBO's Real Sports feature segments.
Affirm Films, Sony's faith-based label that was behind the titles Miracles From Heaven and Heaven Is for Real, will produce in partnership with Crystal City Entertainment and Gulfstream Pictures.
Rise, which is set to begin ...
The Emmy winner will play Willie Davis, a janitor at a Louisiana middle school who took over the boys' basketball program — which was in danger of being canceled due to lack of funds — and led the team to the state championship. Davis' real-life story has been covered in HBO's Real Sports feature segments.
Affirm Films, Sony's faith-based label that was behind the titles Miracles From Heaven and Heaven Is for Real, will produce in partnership with Crystal City Entertainment and Gulfstream Pictures.
Rise, which is set to begin ...
Exclusive: Crystal City Entertainment, the production and finance company with credits such as The Ides of March and Lee Daniel’s The Butler, has secured the film and TV rights to Donald Ray Pollock’s second book, The Heavenly Table.
Set in 1917, the story follows three young, dirt-poor sharecroppers who, after their father dies, hatch a plan to rob a bank and cast off their miserable existence. Things go terribly sideways and the brothers, armed only with a cache of blunt farming tools and a 12-gauge shotgun, ride north on a bloody crime spree.
Crystal City is currently in search of a screenwriter to attach to the project.
Pollock, a recipient of the 2009 Pen/Bingham Fellowship, made his literary debut in 2008 with the critically acclaimed story collection, Knockemstiff. Published in 2016, The Heavenly Table followed Pollock’s 2011 novel, The Devil All The Time, which is being adapted into a Netflix feature...
Set in 1917, the story follows three young, dirt-poor sharecroppers who, after their father dies, hatch a plan to rob a bank and cast off their miserable existence. Things go terribly sideways and the brothers, armed only with a cache of blunt farming tools and a 12-gauge shotgun, ride north on a bloody crime spree.
Crystal City is currently in search of a screenwriter to attach to the project.
Pollock, a recipient of the 2009 Pen/Bingham Fellowship, made his literary debut in 2008 with the critically acclaimed story collection, Knockemstiff. Published in 2016, The Heavenly Table followed Pollock’s 2011 novel, The Devil All The Time, which is being adapted into a Netflix feature...
- 3/29/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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