Universal has given road-trip drama “Green Book,” starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, an awards-season release of Nov.
21.Production companies are Participant Media and DreamWorks Pictures.
Peter Farrelly directs the movie, based on a true friendship that transcended race, class and the 1962 Mason-Dixon line.Mortensen portrays an Italian-American bouncer with a seventh-grade education who is hired to drive a world-class pianist, played by Ali, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South.
They must rely on the “Negro Motorist Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for blacks.
Confronted with racism, danger — as well as unexpected humanity and humor — they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive.Producers are Jim Burke, Charles B.
Wessler and Farrelly along with Farrelly’s fellow writers, Nick Vallelonga and Brian Currie.
The drama is executive produced by Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King,
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