‘King Richard’s Reinaldo Marcus Green Sets Family Dramedy For Lionsgate As Next Feature
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: After directing Will Smith to a SAG Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated performance in King Richard, which has been nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, Reinaldo Marcus Green has set up a new project with Lionsgate—an untitled dramedy that he will write, direct and produce for the studio.In the film, a young man facing mounting school loans moves in with his Puerto Rican mother, who he didn’t grow up with.
What begins as a way to save money becomes a life-changing education about his parents, love, and himself. Aaron Edmonds and Chisom Ude are overseeing the project for Lionsgate.“We’re huge fans of Rei’s – he’s a huge reason why King Richard is such an award season favorite,” said Lionsgate Motion Picture Group’s President, Nathan Kahane. “His incredible talent lets him tap into untold stories that celebrate cultures and traditions along with a universal humanity that runs through us all.
We responded to this story immediately and we could not be more excited to be working with one of the premier rising voices in filmmaking today.”Green’s latest film King Richard offered a look at how tennis superstars Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena Williams (Demi Singleton) became who they are after coaching from their father Richard Williams (Smith).
The acclaimed Warner Bros. drama is also nominated for Best Picture at the Producers Guild Awards and the Critics’ Choice Awards and was named one of the Top 10 Films of the Year by both AFI and the National Board of Review.Green made his feature directorial debut with Monsters and Men, starring John David Washington, Anthony Ramos and Kelvin Harrison Jr., which watched as an African American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom were inspired to
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