Just Mercy - Destin Daniel Cretton - Warner Bros.

Just Mercy es una película de drama biográfico estadounidense de 2019, dirigida por Destin Daniel Cretton, basada en las memorias del abogado y activista Bryan Stevenson y protagonizada por Michael B. Jordan en el papel de Stevenson.

El joven abogado Bryan Stevenson toma el caso de Walter McMillian, un hombre encarcelado por asesinato, a pesar de tener pruebas para demostrar lo contrario. El desarrollo de la película comenzó en 2015 cuando Broad Green Productions contrató a Destin Daniel Cretton para dirigir la cinta, con Michael B. Jordan como protagonista.​ En diciembre de 2017, Warner Bros. adquirió los derechos de distribución de la película, luego de que Broad Green Productions entrara en quiebra.​ En julio de 2018, Jamie Foxx se unió al elenco de la película.​ En agosto de 2018, Brie Larson, O'Shea Jackson Jr. y Tim Blake Nelson se sumaron al reparto, y el rodaje comenzó en Montgomery, Alabama, el 30 de agosto del mismo año.8​ En octubre de 2018, Dominic Bogart, Hayes Mercure y Karan Kendrick se integraron a la película. wiki/Just_Mercy

Destin Daniel Cretton (born November 23, 1978)[2] is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. He is best known for his collaborations with Brie Larson, in the films Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), and Just Mercy (2019). Cretton was born in 1978 in Haiku, Hawaii on the island of Maui, the son of Janice Harue Cretton, a Japanese American hairdresser, and Daniel Cretton, of Irish and Slovak ancestry, who worked for the fire department. He was home-schooled by his Christian mother. He lived in Haiku in a two-bedroom house with his five siblings, including sister Joy, until he was 19 years old. He moved to San Diego, California to attend Point Loma Nazarene University, where he majored in communications. After graduating, Cretton worked for two years as a staff person at a group home for at-risk teenagers.

He made short films as a hobby, which developed as a vocational path. He attended and graduated from film school at San Diego State University. Cretton subsequently teamed with Larson and Michael B. Jordan for Just Mercy, a drama film based on civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson's New York Times bestselling memoir: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama, where he provided defense counsel to men on death row. The plot follows Stevenson (Jordan) as he explores the case of a death row prisoner, Walter McMillian, whom he fought to free. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2019, and was theatrically released on December 25, 2019, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Just Mercy was critically acclaimed. In March 2019, Cretton was hired by Marvel Studios to direct a film based on Shang-Chi. Both the film and Cretton's involvement were confirmed during the San Diego Comic-Con 2019, with the film being titled Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The film, which is Marvel's first superhero movie tentpole franchise with an Asian protagonist, will star Simu Liu as the title character, with Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Awkwafina set to co-star. In January 5, 2020, Cretton said that he signed up to the project because he wanted "to give [his] son a superhero to look up to". The film will be released on February 12, 2021. During the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Cretton self-isolated himself while awaiting testing per the request of his doctor, which temporarily suspended first unit production for Shang-Chi in Australia on March 12, 2020. The test came back negative.

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Michael B. Jordan	Jamie Foxx	Brie Larson	O'Shea Jackson Jr.	Tim Blake Nelson	Rob Morgan
Bryan Stevenson	Walter McMillian	Eva Ansley	Anthony Ray Hinton	Ralph Myers	Herbert Richardson

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time. “[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and made a lasting impact on our country.”—John Legend NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Esquire • Time