Release Date: TBA, 2013
Weinstein Co. to Release Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey and David Oyelowo lead an all-star cast in the Eugene Allen biopic The Butler, directed by Lee Daniels (Precious). The Weinstein Co. has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film, but have not announced an official release date. Check out the first movie photos for The Butler below. The story chronicles the life of White House head butler Eugene Allen (Whitaker). Over the course of his career, Allen served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986 and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made, from the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
THE BUTLER, based on the screenplay by Danny Strong & Lee Daniels, is inspired by Wil Haygood’s Washington Post article “A Butler Well Served by This Election” about Eugene Allen (Whitaker), an African-American man, who served as a butler to eight Presidents in the White House for over thirty years. From this unique vantage point, THE BUTLER traces the dramatic changes that swept American society, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family.
Some information About this Movie:
- Studio: The Weinstein Company
- Genre: Biography, Drama, Adaptation
- Director: Lee Daniels
- Screenwriter: Danny Strong, Lee Daniels
- Starring: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Minka Kelly, Lenny Kravitz, Melissa Leo, James Marsden, David Oyelowo, Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Rickman, Liev Schreiber, Robin Williams, Nelsan Ellis, Zac Efron, Woody Harrelson, Nicole Kidman, Jesse Williams
- Running Time: Unknown
- MPAA Rating: Not yet rated
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