Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba Netflix Western: THE HARDER THEY FALL |

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ay-Z collaborator Jeymes Samuel's Black western has added new cast members including several 2020 awards season contenders.

Ryan Lattanzio
Sep 11, 2020 11:00 am

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Netflix’s “The Harder They Fall” is shaping up to be one of the streamer’s major upcoming titles. A Black-dominated western, the film directed by Jeymes Samuel was first announced back in fall 2019 with Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors starring, but now has added more to the cast — including several 2020 awards season contenders.
Joining the cast will be Zazie Beetz (a 2018 Primetime Emmy nominee for “Atlanta”), Delroy Lindo (an Oscar contender for Spike Lee’s Netflix movie “Da 5 Bloods”), Lakeith Stanfield (“Sorry to Bother You”), and Regina King (Oscar winner for “If Beale Street Could Talk,” a 2020 Emmy contender to beat for HBO’s “Watchmen,” and now an awards player for her feature directorial debut “One Night in Miami”). Also starring in the film will be RJ Cyler (“White Boy Rick” and “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”), Danielle Deadwyler (“Watchmen”), and Edi Gathegi (“X-Men: First Class”).


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Directed by Samuel, also known as singer/songwriter and producer The Bullitts, and co-written by Samuel and Boaz Yakin, “The Harder They Fall” centers on outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors), who discovers that his enemy, Rufus Buck (Idris Elba), is being released from prison, so he reunites his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge. The film will be produced by Jay-Z, with whom The Bullitts collaborated on “The Great Gatsby” soundtrack, and they will together re-team to make original music for “The Harder They Fall.” Other producers are James Lassiter and Lawrence Bender.
This is Samuel’s second feature after 2013’s “They Die by Dawn,” a Black western starring Rosario Dawson and Giancarlo Esposito. Netflix has dated “The Harder They Fall” for a 2021 release. Sources say production is set to start soon.
The new additions bring major star power to an already starry title, as Majors is coming off a big year with a role in “Da 5 Bloods” opposite Lindo, and is currently rocking HBO with the wildly popular “Lovecraft Country” social horror series. Regina King just launched her “One Night in Miami” at the Venice Film Festival, where she made history as the first Black female director in the main slate. The film will next debut in North America at TIFF before Amazon Studios releases the drama into awards contention later this year.
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[playahaitian]

sounds good

 

[TimRock]

My god. This should be in theaters.

 

[yureeka9]

Ima need Zazie Beetz to show some skin in this!

 

[yaBoi]

i'm watching

 

[lightbright]

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

Hopefully it will be unlike Mario Van Peebles's Posse...

 

[keone]

Hopefully it will be unlike Mario Van Peebles's Posse...

i liked that movie

 

[BenQ]

Hopefully it will be unlike Mario Van Peebles's Posse...

i liked that movie

yea wtf posse is a good movie

 

[DiGeneral]

I'm in...

 

[knightmelodic]

That's a major-league cast. Let's hope the writing and directing do it justice. The road is littered with great casts sunk by poor writing or dreadful directing.

 

[Shaka54]

That's a major-league cast. Let's hope the writing and directing do it justice. The road is littered with great casts sunk by poor writing or dreadful directing.

Agreed. This OUGHT to be good, barring writing and directing deficiencies. I hope they do this some justice. We've been on a roll with largely Black cast shows and movies over the past few years. The myth that we can't draw an audience has been blasted to smithereens.

 

[D24OHA]

Who has "They Die By Dawn" damn it?! I still want to see that movie

 

[knightmelodic]

Who has "They Die By Dawn" damn it?! I still want to see that movie

Hmm. You'd think it would be all over the place by now. In high quality I mean. It is on youtubby.

 

[Shaka54]

Hmm. You'd think it would be all over the place by now. In high quality I mean. It is on youtubby.

I thought this was the trailer for the movie! Props for the drop.

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

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[Shaka54]

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Idris puttin' in that work.

 

[Helico-pterFunk]

Idris puttin' in that work.

Idris Elba filmography - Wikipedia

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2020	Concrete Cowboy	Harp
2021	The Suicide Squad	Robert DuBois / Bloodsport	Post-production
2021	The Harder They Fall	Rufus Buck	Filming

 

[D24OHA]

Hmm. You'd think it would be all over the place by now. In high quality I mean. It is on youtubby.

This was really good. Someone needs to pick this up as a series. I NEED a backstory on the 4, Stagecoach Mary, Jesse Williams, Rufus Buck, Giancarlo....man...that 50 mins went by quick AF.

 

[keone]

This was really good. Someone needs to pick this up as a series. I NEED a backstory on the 4, Stagecoach Mary, Jesse Williams, Rufus Buck, Giancarlo....man...that 50 mins went by quick AF.

 

[playahaitian]

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[playahaitian]

 

[Maxxam]

I recognized Regina's eyes at the 1 second mark and I was all in.

Everything else was icing on the cake. Happy to see Delroy Lindo... He is criminally underused in Hollywood

 

[TimRock]

I recognized Regina's eyes

those eyes and those lips.

 

[havelcok]

That Fela sound track for my hype

 

[havelcok]

 

[blackpepper]

I'm definitely in.

 

[Multi - Personality]

 

[Multi - Personality]

i'm a sucker for westerns too.......

 

[blackpepper]

i'm a sucker for westerns too.......

Seen any good ones lately?

 

[Multi - Personality]

Seen any good ones lately?

Well, my favorite western movie so far is the Fastest gun Alive with Glenn Ford.

Favorite show - Have gun, Will Travel..

 

[Keyz]

I'm not a westerns guy but I'm all in on this. Glad to see us branching out into other genres.

 

[Entrepronegro]

 

[2missedcalls]

Thank you for showing me everything in the damn trailer!

 

[yaBoi]

In!