Netflix Pick Up Anthony Mandler’s ‘Monster’ Starring Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Netflix has acquired the rights to director Anthony Mandler’s drama Monster (formerly titled All Rise) starring Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) and Kelvin Harrison Jr. (The Trial of the Chicago 7), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018.
Written by Radha Blank, Cole Wiley, and Janece Shaffer, and based on the award winning novel by Walter Dean Myers, “Monster” is what the prosecutor calls 17 year old honors student and aspiring filmmaker Steve Harmon. Charged with felony murder for a crime he says he did not commit, the film follows his dramatic journey through a complex legal battle that could leave him spending the rest of his life in prison.
Based on the bestselling novel by Walter Dean Myers, Monster also stars Golden Globe nominee John David Washington (Tenet, BlacKkKlansman), Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Wright (Angels in America, Westworld), Emmy winner Jharrel Jerome (When They See Us, Moonlight), Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty), Tim Blake Nelson (Watchmen), Nasier “Nas” Jones, and Rakim Mayers aka rapper A$AP Rocky.
BRON Studios, ToniK Productions and Get Lifted Film Co. are behind the movie, in association with Charlevoix, Red Crown, and Creative Wealth Media. Tonya Lewis Lee, Nikki Silver, Aaron L. Gilbert, Mike Jackson, and Edward Tyler Nahem produced. John Legend, Ty Stiklorius, Dan Crown, Yoni Liebling, Wright and Jones, executive produced, along with Brenda Gilbert, Steven Thibault, Brad Feinstein, Joseph F. Ingrassia, Ali Jazayeri, David Gendron, Linnea Roberts, Jason Cloth, and Richard McConnell.