Jeremy Pope & Gabrielle Union To Star In Writer-Director Elegance Bratton’s Autobiographical Tale ‘The Inspection’
Deadline is reporting that Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union have been set to star in The Inspection, a drama that will mark the narrative feature-film debut of filmmaker and photographer Elegance Bratton. He wrote and will direct the pic, an autobiographical tale that will be a co-production between A24 and Passing producer Gamechanger Films. It is set to begin production this summer.
Plot details are few, but Pope, a dual Emmy and Tony nom, will play a young gay man who enlists in the Marines. Union will play his mother whose approval he is desperate to win.
Effie T. Brown (Dear White People, Real Women Have Curves) will produce and co-finance on behalf of Gamechanger. A24 will also co-finance and handle worldwide distribution. Chester Algernal Gordon will produce via Freedom Principle.
Bratton is coming off Spirit Award and Outfest honors for his feature documentary Pier Kids, which explores the lives of the Black, homeless queer and trans youth who call the Christopher Street Pier in New York City their home. It is a subject close to Bratton: he lived in the Christopher Street Pier for a decade after leaving home at age 16.