Blackhand Media Is Beginning Production On A Civil War Drama Starring Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell and Michael K. Williams

Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell and Michael K. Williams have been asked to star in the upcoming Anthony Mandler directed civil war drama: “Surrounded.”

The film will begin production in New Mexico in November.

This will be the first film produced by Blackhand Media, Mandler’s production company that is joint owned with BRON Studios.

“I couldn’t be more excited that Surrounded is the first film under my partnership with Aaron L. Gilbert’s Bron and the Blackhand Media banner,” said Mandler. “I’ve always loved the Western genre and the opportunity to tell this story from the eyes of a Black female during the Wild West is an honor.”

Here’s the film’s synopsis, from Shadow and Act:

Five years after the Civil War, former Buffalo Soldier Moses “Mo” Washington travels West to lay claim on a gold mine bequeathed by her late slaveowner father. It is a mean, dangerous world for an unaccompanied Black woman and so Mo travels into the deep frontier disguised as a man. After her stagecoach is ambushed, she is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit’s gang tries to free him.

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Shadow And Act