EXCLUSIVE: “You ready for tonight?” Malcom X asks Cassius Clay about his upcoming title bout with the dangerous Sonny Liston at the beginning of Kemp Powers’ screenplay for One Night In Miami. “I been training three years for this fight.
I’m as ready as a person can be,” the soon to be Muhammad Ali replies with his well-known bombast.The directorial debut of Regina King, One Night In Miami is as its title advertises, but is also a tale for our times.
Based on Powers’ play of the same name, the film focuses on the real-life post-fight celebration among Clay, Malcolm X, NFL legend Jim Brown and the arioso Sam Cooke in the Florida metropolis on February 25, 1964.While the conversation, arguments, agreements and laughs from the group comes from
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