Boots Riley Signs New Film Deal With Annapurna Pictures

    After almost 30 years in the rap game, Boots Riley is gaining respected as a film director upon his new deal with Annapurna Pictures.

    The Coup’s founding member and lead MC landed a blind script deal to produce his second film for Riley’s 2018 directorial debut for critically acclaimed film Sorry To Bother You, according to The Wrap.

    Sorry To Bother You featured actors Danny Glover and Lakeith Stansfield, Terry Crews and Tessa Thompson. The film is the same title of The Coup’s album released in 2012.

    Annapurna is responsible for films including The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, and Phantom Thread, and the Academy Award-nominated If Beale Street Could Talk.

     

    8 thoughts on “Boots Riley Signs New Film Deal With Annapurna Pictures

        1. Hahahaha. Murder? Let me guess, you specialize in killing your own kind? I bomb nothing and black no one. I’m trying to forward out country as an EQUAL society, considering 90%+ of us were somehow oppressed or downtrodden. BTW, didn’t the founder of WSHH die of a heart attack in a strip club? SMH. BLM Holmes. Smiley face emoji.

    1. I have enjoyed his music for over 10 years (I discovered The Coup pretty late in the game, when I first heard their music featured in Superbad), but the Sorry to Bother you movie was terrible. I mean, as a fan of his who always disliked that he didn’t get many props outside the underground nerdship of hip hop fandom, I’m happy for him finding a new lane to make money and express his creativity, but wtf was that movie even about? It went from a weird, somewhat realistic movie about telemarketing to the boss turning people into horses. It didn’t make sense

      1. ………it was about the power of labor collectively fighting for workers rights, the conflict between living the good life and living life as a good person who doesn’t make money off of the suffering of others, about business ethics.

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