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- His upcoming projects have that too, including a Hulu miniseries with director Lee Daniels on Sammy Davis Jr., and a film Breece is writing and directing on the origins of House music in the 1970s and ’80s at a black gay nightclub in Chicago called Warehouse.
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Dec 12, 2023 · Although Rustin’s achievements have long been overlooked, co-screenwriter Julian Breece tells THR that he’s considered Rustin “a hero and a guiding light” ever since he first learned of the...
Nov 17, 2023 · Rustin Writer Julian Breece On Bringing a Black Gay Hero to the Screen. courtesy Netflix. The biopic of unsung civil rights leader Bayard Rustin starts streaming on Netflix today. Daniel...
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Nov 27, 2023 · "When you're a writer, you never know what the final movie is going to turn out to be," admits Julian Breece. Breece is the screenwriter behind Rustin, the George C. Wolfe-directed biopic about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
Nov 9, 2023 · We spoke with Breece about his decade-long pursuit of a script worthy of Bayard Rustin, Colman Domingo’s absorbing performance, and what he hopes audiences will take from Rustin’s life.
While modern LGBTQ Americans aren't quite living in the same world as Rustin, the arrival of Wolfe's film, co-written by Black and Julian Breece, is timely, as threats to progress won by...
Dec 6, 2023 · By Julian Breece. Dec. 6, 2023 3:30 AM PT. Going into the writing process, my hope was to write a film that honored Bayard Rustin and the other invisible men. I learned about Bayard Rustin, the...
Breece describes one of the scenes he’s proudest of in Rustin in which the civil rights activist boards a bus in Tennessee and refuses to sit at the back. He’s confronted and hauled off by police officers, who beat him to the ground repeatedly, until he’s bleeding.