Rick Ross, Kurupt & David Banner Star In “Days Of Wrath – Director’s Cut” Movie

    Rick Ross, Kurupt, David Banner and Slim Thug are among the actors featured in the forthcoming major motion picture Days Of Wrath – Director’s Cut. The film, which is slated to be released later this year, is set in Los Angeles and focuses on the intersecting lives of gang members, a teacher and a television news crew. 

    Although Days Of Wrath – Director’s Cut director-co-writer-producer Celia Fox wanted to have rappers in the film, she wanted them to be able to carry their weight on screen.

    “I felt that there was going to be a music component in it, so I felt it would be great to have rappers in it,” she says of the film, which stars Wilmer Valderrama (That ’70s Show) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Grey’s Anatomy), during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “I didn’t want anybody in the film just because they were a rapper. I felt like if they could blend with the character and do the character, that was fine.”

    With the aid of casting director Christine Sheaks (Boogie NightsScary Movie), Fox selected Rick Ross, Kurupt, David Banner and Slim Thug. Fox says she was most familiar with Rick Ross’s material before working with him on the film.

    “I’m a huge fan of Rick Ross,” Fox says. “It was more that I was a really big fan of his at the time. I really loved his music. It kind of had that spirit that I thought that the movie had and the characters had. It was the whole hustler thing. His vibe, his message, I really felt like it was synonymous with Danny Boy, the main character.” 

    Celia Fox Discusses David Banner & Kurupt’s Work On “Days Of Wrath”

    Danny Boy is portrayed by Valderrama. One of the characters who goes against Danny Boy in the film is Kryme, who is portrayed by David Banner

    “I knew he was a a talented producer and I knew his work,” Fox says. “I also kind of felt like with David Banner, he doesn’t stand particularly out as coming from somewhere. With a T.I., he really, really comes off on the screen like he comes from the South. I liked David Banner’s screen presence. He’s a workhorse, very reliable and very professional.” 

    Even though Kurupt wasn’t as professional, in a sense, it worked for his portrayal of a camera man for a Los Angeles television station. “He would come to the set really messed up, but it worked for the character as well,” Fox says. “He showed up with bloodshot eyes, messed up, a little bit off. I really didn’t say much because it worked for the scenes and he’s a really good actor. He did an amazing job.”

    Fox says the rappers helped bring heft to Days Of Wrath – Director’s Cut.  “The story is very much about not being totally a victim of your circumstance, of really rising above your circumstance,” she says. “It’s also about action and reaction.”

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    43 thoughts on “Rick Ross, Kurupt & David Banner Star In “Days Of Wrath – Director’s Cut” Movie

      1. What does David Banner, Laurence Fishburne and Taye Diggs know about being in a street gang you mindless idiot? You gonna ask Jaime Foxx what he knows about being a runaway slave?

    1. Rick Ross is going to deliver a stellar performance. It’ll be damn believable too. Especially because he’s spent the last 10 years acting like a drug dealer. Should give him an Academy Award for every album he’s ever put out.

    2. Seeing Kurrupt play a cameraman for a news station is worth the watch, that fool had me dyin in that movie with Steven Segal.

    3. Fishburn is a quality actor, the rest of the cast not so much, Taye Diggs is alright…Faizon nearly ruined Idlewild.

    4. Kurupt still being unprofessional at the age of 40? Sad. No wonder his rapping skills have taken such a hit. This is coming from on of his biggest supporters

    5. If Wilmer Valderrama is ur main star its not a good sign how any one gon take him serious as a gangbanger lmao Ross should be good he been acting his whole career he still really keeps talking bout the coke keys but all we see is that cheesy grin from the photo when his fat ass was getting his award for being a great prison guard fuck all cops and C.O’S

    6. Does anyone know when the film comes out? At imbd, it said 2008 but i cant find it anywhere. would like to see it.

    7. No worries, foud this at Wiki:
      After many delays on the release of the film, on February 25, 2014, the director and producer Celia Fox finally announced that the film would have a release late 2014. It has been confirmed that an advertising and marketing deal has been negotiated and signed allowing for promotion and release in the coming months.[3]

    8. Seriously. Why has this movie not come out? Everybody got way more famous and now want more money to put it out. Greed is the root of all evil…

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