Marshall trailer: Chadwick Boseman stars in the new biopic
Open Road Films has released the official trailer for Marshall, starring Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther, 42, Captain America: Civil War, Get on Up) as legendary attorney and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Josh Gad (Frozen, The Wedding Ringer, upcoming Beauty and the Beast) as lawyer Sam Friedman. Check it out in the player below!
Marshall is based on a true incident in the life of Thurgood Marshall, when he was a young lawyer, long before his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. As the nation teeters on the brink of WWII, a nearly bankrupt NAACP sends Marshall to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur against his wealthy socialite employer in a sexual assault and attempted murder trial that quickly became tabloid fodder. In need of a high profile victory but muzzled by a segregationist court, Marshall is partnered with Samuel Friedman, a young Jewish lawyer who has never tried a case. Marshall and Friedman struggle against a hostile storm of fear and prejudice, driven to discover the truth in the sensationalized trial which helped set the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement to come.
The film also stars Kate Hudson (Deepwater Horizon, Almost Famous), Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast, Downton Abbey), James Cromwell (Oscar nominee for Babe), Sterling K. Brown (The People vs. O.J. Simpson) and Keesha Sharp (The People v. O.J. Simpson). Oscar nominee Reginald Hudlin (producer of Django Unchained) is directing and Paula Wagner (Mission: Impossible, The Last Samurai) is producing through her Chestnut Ridge Productions banner along with Jonathan Sanger (The Elephant Man) and Hudlin.
Marshall is set to arrive in theaters on October 13.