*Orion Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios released the trailer for the satirical comedy “American Fiction” starring Jeffrey Wright.
The movie is based on Percival Everett’s 2001 novel “Erasure.” As People reports, the film “confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes,” per the official synopsis.
Wright’s character, Monk, is described as “a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from ‘Black’ entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes.”
“To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish ‘Black’ book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain,” the synopsis continues.
Watch the trailer below.
Directed by Cord Jefferson, the film also stars Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown.
“I’ve never directed anything in my life, not a commercial, not a short film. I had never written a movie before,” Jefferson told Vanity Fair about his feature film directorial debut.
“All of a sudden I’m giving Jeffrey Wright acting notes? It’s like telling Michael Jordan how to do a jump shot,” Jefferson added.
Jefferson noted during a Q&A panel for the film that he first heard about Everett’s “Erasure” novel last year while “reading a review” for the book “Interior Chinatown.”
“In the review, it said, ‘This novel has a satire reminiscent of Percival Everett’s Erasure.’ I’d never heard of Erasure, so I went and bought it and just devoured it over Christmas break,” he said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Within 20 pages, I knew I wanted to adapt the screenplay. Within 50 pages, [I was] reading the character of Monk in Jeffrey Wright’s voice – that’s how early I started thinking of Jeffrey for it. By the time that I was done, I just really knew that I wanted to direct it. There were so many overlaps with my personal life and things that I’ve been thinking about for literally decades, that when I was reading it, it really felt like somebody had written me a gift personally.”
“American Fiction” will hit select theaters Dec. 15 before a wider opening on Dec. 22.
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