Project inspired by 1974 Boston busing riots.
Heading into AFM Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has announced that Mooncusser Filmworks has hired African American composer Robert ToTeras and brought on Captain Marvel composer Pinar Toprak as co-producer for its racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard and Jeremy Piven.
Daniel Adams directs the project inspired by the 1974 Boston busing riots that ensued after an attempt to desegregate use of public school buses. The story, believed to be the first US fim about the unrest, centres on a Boston Irish police officer Bill Coughlin (Chatwin), who causes a backlash led...
Heading into AFM Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has announced that Mooncusser Filmworks has hired African American composer Robert ToTeras and brought on Captain Marvel composer Pinar Toprak as co-producer for its racially charged drama The Walk starring Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard and Jeremy Piven.
Daniel Adams directs the project inspired by the 1974 Boston busing riots that ensued after an attempt to desegregate use of public school buses. The story, believed to be the first US fim about the unrest, centres on a Boston Irish police officer Bill Coughlin (Chatwin), who causes a backlash led...
- 10/15/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Jay Huguley has joined the cast of Daniel Adams’ The Walk.
He’ll appear in the period drama, opposite Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Malcolm McDowell and Jeremy Piven.
The film is set in 1974 and follows Bill Coughlin (Justin Chatwin), a Boston Irish cop who confronts fierce social pressure, after being assigned to protect Black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
Huguley will play Riley, an old-school Irish cop who works as Coughlin’s partner in The Boston Police, and is resistant to school integration.
Adams penned the script for The Walk with George Powell. Pic’s producers are Hank Blumenthal, Michael Mailer and Paul W. Hazen. Alex Nazarenko is also on board as exec producer, with Cinema Management Group handling international sales at Cannes.
Huguley will be seen this fall in Michael Showalters’ The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
He’ll appear in the period drama, opposite Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Malcolm McDowell and Jeremy Piven.
The film is set in 1974 and follows Bill Coughlin (Justin Chatwin), a Boston Irish cop who confronts fierce social pressure, after being assigned to protect Black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
Huguley will play Riley, an old-school Irish cop who works as Coughlin’s partner in The Boston Police, and is resistant to school integration.
Adams penned the script for The Walk with George Powell. Pic’s producers are Hank Blumenthal, Michael Mailer and Paul W. Hazen. Alex Nazarenko is also on board as exec producer, with Cinema Management Group handling international sales at Cannes.
Huguley will be seen this fall in Michael Showalters’ The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
- 7/12/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Ledge producer Michael Mailer has teamed with Hank Blumenthal to produce an inspired-by-true-events period drama, The Walk, with Daniel Adams attached to direct from a script he co-wrote with George Powell. The screenplay was originated by Powell, a former drug dealer whom Adams discovered while he was incarcerated. Upon his release, Powell turned to screenwriting and The Walk will mark his first produced script.
The story centers on Boston Irish cop Bill Coughlin as he is faced with his own suppressed racist attitude and fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High during the court-ordered forced integration of the Boston School System in 1974, which resulted in brutal violence and city-wide protests.
Mailer, Blumenthal and Adams are longtime collaborators having worked together on various films throughout the past 30 years starting with the Sandra Bullock starre,...
The story centers on Boston Irish cop Bill Coughlin as he is faced with his own suppressed racist attitude and fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High during the court-ordered forced integration of the Boston School System in 1974, which resulted in brutal violence and city-wide protests.
Mailer, Blumenthal and Adams are longtime collaborators having worked together on various films throughout the past 30 years starting with the Sandra Bullock starre,...
- 11/13/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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