Apple TV+ Gains The Rights To The Banker – Starring Samuel L. Jackson And Anthony Mackie

Posted by at 11:53 am on July 17, 2019

The Wrap is reporting George Nolfi’s The Banker, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult and Nia Long,will be released by Apple on the company’s upcoming Apple TV+. Apple  already has the rights to Sundance selections Hala and the Elephant Queen, the animated film Wolfwalkers , and the Sofia Coppola-directed On the Rocks from A24.

The Banker is a drama based on the true story of two African American entrepreneurs, Bernard Garrett (Mackie) and Joe Morris (Jackson), who during the 1950’s tried to circumvent the racial limitations of the era and take on the establishment by recruiting a working class white man, Matt Steiner (Hoult) and training him to pose as the head of their business empire while they posed as a janitor and a chauffeur. Bernard’s wife Eunice (Nia Long), plays a key role in setting up the enterprise. Garrett and Morris become two of the wealthiest and most successful real estate owners in the country with Steiner as their front man, but their success brings about unforeseen risk of exposure that threatens everything.

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