PREVIEW: The Harder They Fall (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jonathan Majors (The Last Black Man in San Francisco), Idris Elba (Pacific Rim), Zazie Beetz (Joker), Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk), Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods), Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah), RJ Cyler (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), Danielle Deadwyler (Reckoning), Edi Gathegi (Gone Baby Gone), Deon Cole (Barbershop), Damon Wayans Jr. (Let’s Be Cops)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Jeymes Samuel (They Die by Dawn), director, writer, producer, composer; Boaz Yakin (Now You See Me), writer; Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction), Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter (Paid in Full) and James Lassiter (Hitch), producers; Mihai Malaimare Jr. (Jojo Rabbit), cinematographer; Tom Eagles (Hunt for the Wilderpeople), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the Old American West, outlaw Rufus Buck (Elba) is sprung from prison by his gang, including Trudy Smith (King) and Cherokee Bill (Stanfield). The news does not sit well with cowboy Nat Love (Majors), who was forced to watch Buck kill his family as a child, and so he rounds up his own gang – among them Stagecoach Mary (Beetz), deputy marshal Bass Reeves (Lindo) and young gunslinger Jim Beckworth (Cyler) – to take revenge on Buck and his gang…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

A fantastic all-black cast, from Idris Elba to Regina King, headlines this stylish and awesome Western from filmmaker Jeymes Samuel, who produces alongside none other than Jay-Z himself.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 3RD NOVEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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