Focus Features’ Harriet Tubman biopic is including Leslie Odom Jr. and Joe Alwyn.
They will be a part of Tony winner Cynthia Erivo, who is about to play the well-known freedom fighter, and can lead a forged that additionally contains Jennifer Nettles and Clarke Peters.
Harriet, which is about to movie subsequent month in Virginia, will observe Tubman’s journey from escaped slave to employee on the Underground Railroad, efficiently main dozens of slave to freedom from the pre-Civil War period south.
Kasi Lemmons will direct from a screenplay she co-wrote with Gregory Allen Howard. Debra Martin Chase with Martin Chase Productions, Daniela Taplin Lundberg with Stay Gold Features and Gregory Allen Howard will produce.
Josh McLaughlin, Focus Features president of manufacturing, will oversee the manufacturing.
Odom Jr. was final seen in Fox’s Murder on the Orient Express and just lately wrapped manufacturing of John Ridley’s Needle in a Timestack. He is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen.
Alwyn, who broke out in Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, is about for 2 awards hopefuls — Boy Erased and Mary Queen of Scots. He is repped by CAA, the U.Okay.’s Independent and Peikoff Mahan.
This article initially appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.
