What you may need to know:
1. It’s a Martin Luther King Jr biopic focusing on the 1965 Selma (Alabama) to Montgomery (50 miles away) voting rights marches.
2. Please welcome Oprah Winfreeeeey!
3. Reluctant to join the film as either producer or actor, Oprah was finally convinced when she learned that sheriff-socking activist Annie Lee Cooper was a big fan.
4. Director and co-writer Ana DuVernay only landed the gig after Lee Daniels jumped ship to direct The Butler (2013).
5. The first Selma to Montgomery march was met with opposition by the state troopers. That morning the county Sheriff issued an order for all white males in Dallas County over the age of 21 to report to the courthouse that morning to be deputised. The marchers were attacked with nightsticks and tear gas. 17 were hospitalized and the day was named ‘Bloody Sunday’.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: They have a nightmare.
Release Date: February 6
(Delboy is in the ‘K-hole’. Dylan is Tom Dillon, cineaste/farm dweller)
Really looking forward to this am just hoping its a damn sight better then the butler.
Let me know when the sequel ‘Patty’ comes out