A riveting trailer has been launched for the indie drama Rob Peace starring Jay Will because the title character, and a fantastic ensemble forged that features Oscar-nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mary J. Blige, in addition to Gbenga Akinnagbe, Michael Kelly, Mare Winningham, and Camila Cabello.
Ejiofor not solely stars within the movie, however he directed it and wrote the screenplay, primarily based on the bestselling e book The Quick and Tragic Lifetime of Robert Peace written by Jeff Hobbs. That is Ejiofor’s second directorial characteristic after The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
The movie’s synopsis reads: “Robert Peace grew up in an impoverished part of Newark and later graduated from Yale with levels in molecular biophysics & biochemistry whereas on scholarship.
“Peace led a twin life in academia & analysis whereas additionally incomes six figures promoting marijuana. Based mostly on Jeff Hobbs’ bestselling e book. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s considerate adaptation of Hobbs’ biography examines Peace’s wrestle to reconcile his tutorial ambitions with mounting financial & household pressures.
“Though his (Jay Will) abilities are nurtured from childhood by his devoted mom (Mary J. Blige), he lives within the shadow of his father (Ejiofor) who’s imprisoned for a murky double homicide.
“Intellectually curious and restlessly entrepreneurial, Peace lives a divided life, tenaciously working in a college analysis lab whereas secretly elevating further money for his dad’s protection.”
This appears like a stupendous and charming movie, and I look ahead to watching it. Try the trailer beneath, and watch Rob Peace in choose US theaters on August sixteenth.
