Writer-Director Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction to have its World Premiere at TIFF 2023
Among the films slated to have its World Premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival is writer-director Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Sterling K. Brown, Myra Lucretia Taylor, John Ortiz, Issa Rae, and Adam Brody. The film will be released theatrically on November 3, 2023, by Orion Pictures through MGM.
Produced by MRC and Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman’s T-Street Productions, the film is based on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett.
Wright stars in the film as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, an English professor and author who writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, aiming to lay bare the hypocrisies of the publishing world. The book’s immediate success forces Monk to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed identity and challenges his closely-held worldviews.
Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Tracee Ellis Ross plays the role of Lisa; Erika Alexander will play Coraline; Tony-winner Leslie Uggams as Agnes; three-time Emmy-winner Sterling K. Brown as Cliff; Tony-nominee Myra Lucretia Taylor as Lorraine; John Ortiz as Arthur; Peabody-winner Issa Rae in the role of Sintara; and Adam Brody as Wiley.