Selma
Short description
Selma is a historical drama about the campaign led by Martin Luther King Jr. to secure voting rights for Black Americans in 1965. The film centers on the protests in Selma, Alabama, where demonstrators faced violent resistance as they pressed for change. King and his allies organize a march from Selma to Montgomery. President Lyndon B. Johnson is slow to act, while Alabama governor George Wallace works to stop the movement. The clashes in Selma and the pressure the marchers generated eventually pushed Johnson toward the Voting Rights Act. King also contends with strains in his marriage, including allegations of infidelity that surface during the campaign.
Ava DuVernay directed the film and wrote the screenplay with Paul Webb. It followed her second feature, Middle of Nowhere, and preceded her later films, including 13th and Origin. David Oyelowo plays King, Carmen Ejogo plays Coretta Scott King, Tom Wilkinson plays President Johnson, and Tim Roth plays Governor Wallace, with Giovanni Ribisi and André Holland among the sizable credited cast and crew. Produced by Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Christian Colson, the film cost about 20 million dollars and earned roughly 67 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 7.5/10 from 99,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.4/10 from 2,365 votes, while the film critics' rating stands at 8.5/10 from 310 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Until July 2013, the project was on hold, until Ava DuVernay signed on to direct it after rewriting the screenplay with its original author, Paul Webb.
- Principal photography began on May 20, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia, while filming in Selma, Alabama was scheduled for June 23-26.
- Film development began in 2008, and by late 2009, Lee Daniels began negotiations to direct. However, Daniels left the project in the summer to film “The Butler”.
- David Oyelowo was the only actor to carry over from the planned 2010 project to the 2014 version. Robert De Niro, Hugh Jackman, Cedric “The Entertainer,” Lenny Kravitz, and Liam Neeson, who were cast in 2010, left the project.
- It turned out that the heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. had already sold the rights to use King’s speeches on human rights to the film companies “DreamWorks” and “Warner Brothers” for use in a future biopic. For this film, director Ava DuVernay wrote new versions of these King speeches.
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