Rob Peace Trailer Reveals the Chiwetel Ejiofor Adaptation
Paramount Pictures label Republic Pictures has revealed the official trailer for Rob Peace, which will open in theaters on August 16, 2024. The film is rated R for drug content and language.
Directed, adapted by, and starring Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), Rob Peace follows the true story of a brilliant young man (Jay Will) torn between his father’s shadowed past and his promising future.
Raised by his devoted mother (Academy Award nominee Mary J. Blige, Mudbound), Rob risks everything he has worked for to free his imprisoned father (Ejiofor). The film is based on Jeff Hobbs’s New York Times bestseller, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace.
The cast includes Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Gbenga Akinnagbe, with Michael Kelly, Mare Winningham, and Camila Cabello.
The producers include Antoine Fuqua, Rebecca Hobbs, Jeffrey Soros, Simon Horsman, Andrea Calderwood, Kat Samick, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet.
The executive producers are Mary J. Blige, Jamin O’Brien, Morgan Earnest, Luke Rodgers, Jeff Skoll, Robert Kessel, Bruce Evans, Faye Stapleton, Ali Jazayeri, and David Gendron.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace is officially described as follows: “When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert’s life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his father in jail and his mother earning less than $15,000 a year.
“But Robert was a brilliant student, and it was supposed to get easier when he was accepted to Yale, where he studied molecular biochemistry and biophysics. But it didn’t get easier. Robert carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, trying to fit in at Yale and at home on breaks.
“A compelling and honest portrait of Robert’s relationships—with his struggling mother, with his incarcerated father, with his teachers and friends—The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace encompasses the most enduring conflicts in America: race, class, drugs, community, imprisonment, education, family, friendship, and love.
“It’s about the collision of two fiercely insular worlds—the ivy-covered campus of Yale University and the slums of Newark, New Jersey, and the difficulty of going from one to the other and then back again. It’s about trying to live a decent life in America.
You can watch the official Rob Peace trailer here.
