After debuting at the Sundance Film Festival, Fruitvale Station has been gathering momentum as the positive critics reviews have drawn people to this compelling drama. Starring Michael B. Jordan (Vince from Friday Night Lights) as Oscar Grant but the names of the two policemen involved in the shooting are changed for the movie. The rights to the movie were hotly contested after Sundance but naturally The Weinstein Company won paying over $2 million.
The film tells the story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, and his experiences on the last day of his life, before he was fatally shot by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Police in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009.
Fruitvale Station does not have a UK release date yet but early indications are that it will be out in January 2014. The trailer is embedded below:
No comments:
Post a Comment