'Shang-Chi' is Destin Daniel Cretton's next hero film. First up is drama 'Just Mercy'
When Destin Daniel Cretton begins filming Marvel’s highly anticipated “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” in the new year, he’ll consider it the second superhero movie he will have made., whose career-long crusade to save individuals from the death penalty and effect criminal justice reform is about to get its own origin story onscreen.
Based on the 2014 New York Times bestselling memoir “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” the film stars Jordan as the Delaware-born Stevenson, an eager young attorney whose compassion is awakened while working with clients on death row in the deep South. Depicting quietly heartbreaking moments with characters on both sides of the prison walls, “Just Mercy” illuminates entrenched failings of an American criminal justice system that disproportionately incarcerates minorities and the marginalized. Throughout the film, Stevenson’s mission rings loud. In depicting how he was inspired to action, the filmmakers hope their audience will be too.
By the end of this book, where you’re confronted with so many harsh truths, you expect to be depressed. But I somehow felt really hopeful and inspired.Cretton, who grew up in Hawaii and spent his postcollegiate years making short films in San Diego, had won the Sundance jury prize for his 2008 short film “Short Term 12,” which he would later adapt into his 2013 sophomore narrative feature of the same name starring Larson as a group home counselor working with troubled kids.
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