EXCLUSIVE: Emily the Criminal Independent Spirit Best Supporting nominee Theo Rossi is set to star in Vincent Grashaw’s biopic, Bruton, about Bryan Bruton, who was sentenced to a decade in a Florida prison for an unintended crime.
Bruton was charged in the early 2000s for a manslaughter conviction from a fatal hit and run in Jacksonville, Fl. The movie will follow Bruton’s journey through the correctional system.
In the wake of his release and moving to California, Bruton turned to making the YouTube video series Bryan Bruton Crazy Prison Stories.
Bruton’s videos canvases life in the Florida prison system from, from how inmates obtain and conceal drugs, alcohol and weapons to cutting the window out of one’s jail cell.
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