The first look clip of Regina King’s feature directorial debut One Night in Miami dropped online and has already generated Oscar buzz. Academy award winner Regina has already become the first African American woman to direct a film selected at the Venice Film Festival. The film is a fictionalized imagining of a real-life meeting of the minds among four heavyweights in American culture- Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke.
One Night in Miami stars Eli Goree as Clay, Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm, Aldis Hodge as Brown and Leslie Odom Jr as Cooke. The clip shows an ambitious retelling of the evening when the four friends gather at a motel to celebrate Clay’s win against Sonny Liston in February 1964. The film humanizes and celebrates the four icons as they spend an evening together, before Malcolm reveals his plans with the gentlemen for the evening.
Waiting for the #BiennaleCinema2020 | #OutOfCompetition@ReginaKing's @ONIMfilm follows the night of February 25, 1964, when #CassiusClay emerged as the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion and celebrated with #MalcolmX, #SamCooke and #JimBrown → https://t.co/XO4ApQUAJS#Venezia77 pic.twitter.com/PZIQaue0lP
— La Biennale di Venezia (@la_Biennale) August 26, 2020
The film’s music has been composed by Oscar-nominee Terence Blanchard. Cinematographer Tami Reiker has shot the film while Francine Jamison-Tanchuk has been roped in for her costume talents. Two-time Oscar-nominee Tariq Anwar serves as the film’s editor. One Night in Miami is produced by Jess Wu Calder and Keith Calder of Snoot Entertainment and Jodi Klein of ABKCO. King and Powers serve as executive producers.
One Night in Miami is set to be released in 2020 and will screen at Toronto International Film Festival on September 10.
(Source: YouTube)
