13th’s Ava DuVernay’s next 100-million-dollar production, the adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time starring Storm Reid and Oprah, just got a little bit of that Moonlight shine.
André Holland (FX’s American Horror Story: Roanoke, Cinemax’s The Knick) has been cast in the production, as Principal Jenkins.
Also joining in on the fantasy fun will be Zach Galifianakis, Pan’s Levi Miller, Celeste & Jesse Forever’s Will McCormack, Rowan Blanchard (the Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World), and Bellamy Young (TV’s Scandal).
Holland & Co. join a robust cast that already includes Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, and Beyond the Lights’ Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
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You guys have got to keep an eye out for Moonlight, this new indie written and helmed by up-and-coming director Barry Jenkins (Medicine for Melancholy) that’s picking up some serious heat as its initial Oct. 21 roll-out grows near.
An adaptation of Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the film is already being talked up as a sort of black Brokeback Mountain.
Starring virtual newcomers Trevante Rhodes and André Holland (Cinemax’s The Knick), Moonlight is a three-part narrative that spans the childhood, teens, and adulthood of an African-American man who makes it out of the drug-plagued Miami inner city to find love in unexpected places on his way to becoming who he truly is. SPECTRE’s Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali (Netflix’s House of Cards), and singer-turned-actress Janelle Monáe (the upcoming Hidden Figures) round out the cast.
Check out the trailer for Moonlight now.
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