Nat Turner Biopic ‘The Birth Of A Nation’ (Friday 7 October 2016)
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The Social Network‘s Armie Hammer has joined the cast of actor/director Nate Parker’s The Birth Of A Nation, a biopic of African-American slave turned revolutionary Nat Turner, who led a ? rebellion in 1831 and went down in history as one of the most controversial American figures preceding the Civil War.
Parker broke out opposite Denzel Washington in 2007’s The Great Debaters and stars in this week’s Relativity release Beyond The Lights from director Gina Prince-Bythewood, makes his directorial debut with the historical drama, which he spent years scripting. He will also star in The Birth Of A Nation with Hammer, who’s playing Samuel Turner, the son of Nat’s first master Benjamin Turner.
Hammer recently wrapped filming on psychological thriller Mine and stars as Ilya Kuryakin in Warner Bros.’ The Man From U.N.C.L.E. remake. He’s repped by WME and Sloane Offer Weber & Dern.
Parker is repped by WME, Anonymous, and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof & Fishman.
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Yay!!!!
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Threadstarter needs his own LCA sub forum, cuz dude jus be fillin up the 1st page with news n rumors. WTF. You work for Variety or nah?
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Yeah he looks like a slaveowner
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They know a very lil about him to make a biopic
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So they'll make a bunch of ? up then
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GOAT title lmao
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This biopic trend is actually pretty dope
there have been some solid films coming out
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If they aint showing the ? cuttin' babies heads off (which they WON'T) ? aint legit.
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So, they're taking the name from this movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPmK1tPl_j0
...as the title for a Nat Turner movie?
The shenanigans continue.
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I like the name jacking though
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playmaker88 wrote: »They know a very lil about him to make a biopic
imho a direct adaptation of Kyle Baker's graphic novel would be the best way to go, the way Kyle did it was brilliant, he actually makes you understand why someone would go out of their way to ? babies.
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Him or his people supposedly killing babies as a point of "fear" is hilarious considering the people whose babies they killed... killed ? babies.
I might have to see this solo. -
I'm there. Will be Fandangoing my ? on Friday morning.
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Im watchin this ? . And ? all those self righteous muthafuckas on ign and other sights in the comment sections shittin on the movie. This ? is what needs to dropped yearly to remind their ? of the history of this country. One fist up
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I heard this movies is gory as hell
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I'm going to see this ? more than once.
Double ? YOU to all the black people who not supporting and a single ? YOU to all the white people crying about it and having fake outrage over a not guilty verdict. -
Will be watching this weekend
I usually pay for a movie then watch a bunch of others for free
But with this Magnificent 7 and lupitas film i might have to pay for more than one -
Goat, cant wait.
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Definitely going to see it and trying to get more brothas out to go see it. The fact that u got more ? hype about Halloween Madea speaks volumes on where we are as a people. Hope Nate knock this ? out the park
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Surprised they put a trailer out, but glad they did. This needs to get the same exposure as those white saviour slave movies where blacks are weak and subservient. We need more movies where we're represented as strong and able to handle things ourselves. That's why we need more black casted Egyptian and African based movies.
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Surprised they put a trailer out, but glad they did. This needs to get the same exposure as those white saviour slave movies where blacks are weak and subservient. We need more movies where we're represented as strong and able to handle things ourselves. That's why we need more black casted Egyptian and African based movies.
which slave movies are there where black people are subservient and weak ?
and there are alot of African based movies , you guys just don't support them.
moreover why are african americans obsessed with Eygpt when you are descendants from West African and Bantu Tribes ? -
Ahhh on the fence about this. I wanna see it but it's being distributed by Fox. ? Aye man.
But I will say that this brotha caught unnecessary (and oddly great timing) flack for that ? ? during the promotional run for this film. The media knew what they were doing digging that story up. That alone warrants my support since if this ? wasn't trill they wouldn't have tried throwing him under the bus. -
fortyacres wrote: »Surprised they put a trailer out, but glad they did. This needs to get the same exposure as those white saviour slave movies where blacks are weak and subservient. We need more movies where we're represented as strong and able to handle things ourselves. That's why we need more black casted Egyptian and African based movies.
which slave movies are there where black people are subservient and weak ?
and there are alot of African based movies , you guys just don't support them.
moreover why are african americans obsessed with Eygpt when you are descendants from West African and Bantu Tribes ?
Which slave movies can you name where slaves actually fight back without the help of a white savior? Usually they just run they ? off and hope to not get caught.
And to your point about Egypt, I'm speaking in terms of people of color period. And these African movies you speak of get no shine, which was also my point. -
Going 2nite.
Checked the avalible seats and nobody has bought tix so far :#
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