EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is finally due to get back up and running on action-thriller Rebel Ridge after an 11 month hiatus.Filming is set to re-start in the U.S.
on April 25 after production came to a halt last June with the abrupt departure of star John Boyega.The Star Wars actor left the movie mid-shoot citing “family reasons”.
Speculation swirled online about Boyega’s dissatisfaction with the production but that was denied by his reps and the streamer.This isn’t a low-budget movie so the lead actor exiting mid-shoot posed a significant creative, financial and practical hurdle.
That’s part of the reason it has taken so long to get back underway.Since then, Brit Aaron Pierre was cast in the Boyega role.
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