PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Chiwetel Ejiofor had read Jeff Hobbs’ “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace” years before Antoine Fuqua asked if he might consider writing and directing an adaptation.
Some of the narratives chalked it up to the fact that he went back to where he came from.
“I thought it was very special and very powerful,” Ejiofor told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
“I never felt that it was a story about somebody who was able to play a role in different places,” Ejiofor said.
Ejiofor wants audiences to have a sense of hope in Rob’s story as well as to feel enriched by knowing him.
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