Jeffrey Wright plays a struggling novelist from Boston in the movie, which will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival ahead of its November release.
9/30 Update: The opening date for “American Fiction” has been pushed back to Dec. 15 for its limited release and expanding on Dec. 22.
The shot-in-Boston movie “American Fiction” (formerly “Untitled Novelist Project”), starring Jeffrey Wright, hits theaters Nov. 17.
The film, which co-stars Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown, is also set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 8.
Wright stars as a struggling novelist from Boston who finds sudden success after writing a satirical novel under a pen name that exposes the hypocrisies of the publishing world when it comes to Black fiction.
Scenes were filmed last August and September at three locations in Scituate, including Sand Hills and Peggotty beaches. Other filming locations were at the corner of Congress and A streets in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston, outside the Brookline Booksmith on Harvard Street, and in West Roxbury.
From Orion Pictures, “American Fiction” is based on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett. It marks the feature-film debut for writer-director Cord Jefferson, an Emmy winner for penning the limited series “Watchmen.” Jefferson also wrote episodes for the NBC sitcom “The Good Place,” the hit HBO series “Succession” and the Netflix comedy “Master of None.”
Wright co-starred opposite Daniel Craig in the James Bond movies, playing reliable CIA agent Felix Leiter. Last year, he was a standout in “The Batman” as Commissioner Gordon.
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