EXCLUSIVE: Aldis Hodge (Black Adam) and Lauren E. Banks (Metropolis on a Hill) are the newest additions to the solid of The Dutchman, the psychological thriller based mostly on the Obie Award-winning play by Amiri Baraka, which started filming underneath a SAG-AFTRA Interim Settlement in September.
The actors be a part of an ensemble that features André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz and Stephen McKinley Henderson, as we had been first to inform you. Emmy nominee Andre Gaines (The One and Solely Dick Gregory) is directing from his screenplay written with filmmaker Qasim Basir.
Set on a New York subway, The Dutchman facilities on an encounter between a well-to-do Black man and a fascinating white girl who match wits in a sexualized recreation of cat and mouse that results in a violent conclusion. The searing confrontation amplifies the size of racial battle in America on this adaptation of the stage present first introduced on the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, New York Metropolis, in March 1964, which was later tailored right into a critically acclaimed 1966 movie starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr.
Banks involves the challenge after learning underneath Freeman, who served as considered one of her appearing professors at Howard College. “Al Freeman, Jr. was…a relentless reminder to me that we stand on the shoulders of revolutionary artists,” stated the actress. “After studying The Dutchman script, I discovered it contemporary, bold and daring, similar to the artwork that was created throughout the Black Arts Motion. It not solely honors American theater, however it’s brilliantly inclusive of the brand new voices, modifications and resolutions of our time.”
The Dutchman‘s producers are Gaines and Emmy nominee Jonathan T. Baker (Sylvie’s Love, The Banker). The movie is financed by Gaines’ multi-platform media firm, Cinemation Studios, and E.O.A Productions, which beforehand collaborated on the soundtrack for Gaines’ Showtime doc The One and Solely Dick Gregory. Nicole A. Parke and Enoch Okay. Osei-Acheampong, co-founders and government board members of E.O.A. Productions, are serving as exec producers. Kyle Townsend and Matt Rachamkin are additionally exec producing, alongside Joshua Blum and Han West for Washington Sq. Movies, with UTA Impartial Movie Group repping gross sales.
Identified for turns in such status dramas as One Night time in Miami… and Hidden Figures, Hodge has most just lately been seen starring reverse Dwayne Johnson in Warner Bros/DC’s Black Adam. He beforehand starred in Showtime’s Metropolis on a Hill and can subsequent be seen main the Amazon sequence Cross, based mostly on the bestselling novels by James Patterson. Different upcoming tasks for the actor embrace the sci-fi thriller Parallel and the romantic thriller Marmalade, marking the characteristic directorial debut of actor Keir O’Donnell.
Banks starred alongside Hodge within the crime drama sequence Metropolis on a Hill and has moreover been seen on exhibits like Gaslit, Roar, Maniac and Dietland. Up subsequent for her is Lawmen: Bass Reeves, the David Oyelowo-led Western sequence exec produced by Taylor Sheridan, which premieres on Paramount+ November 5.
Hodge is repped by Paradigm, Priluck Firm and Ziffren Brittenham; Banks by CAA and Del Shaw Moonves.
