Netflix has picked up worldwide rights to Concrete Cowboy, the Idris Elba-Caleb McLaughlin drama that generated acclaim when it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September.
While no release date has been set, the streamer is penciling in a debut in 2021. Endeavor Content made the deal on behalf of the film and filmmakers.
No figures were available. Adapting the novel Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri and directed by Ricky Staub, the movie centers on a troubled teen (McLaughlin of Stranger Things) who, while spending a summer in North Philadelphia, is torn between a life of crime and his estranged father’s vibrant urban-cowboy subculture.
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