Mark Wahlberg And Sterling K. Brown Set For Elegance Bratton’s Crime Thriller ‘By Any Means’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: After seeing his first narrative feature The Inspection garner rave reviews in 2022, director Elegance Bratton is getting back behind the camera for By Any Means, a true-life crime thriller starring Oscar nominees Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter) and Sterling K.
Brown (American Fiction) for Hammerstone Studios, Thunder Road, Freedom Principle, and North.Five.Six. Based on the Black List script CI34 from Sascha Penn (Raising Kanan, Creed II) with revisions from Bratton and Ted Witcher, By Any Means is being introduced to buyers at the upcoming AFM by Michael Rothstein and Samuel Hall’s North.Five.Six., which is handling international sales.
Pic is based on the incredible true story of the notorious mafia hitman who was hired by Hoover’s FBI off-the-books and partnered with a young Black special agent to hunt down those responsible for the murders of civil rights leaders in 1966 Mississippi.
Production is set to kick off in March, with Alex Lebovici producing for Hammerstone Studios, alongside Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee for Thunder Road Films, Chester Algernal Gordon for Freedom Principle, Stephen Levinson, and Wahlberg under his Closest to the Hole Production banner.
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