We’ve got our hands on the first official pictures of Mudbound, the upcoming period drama movie written and directed by Dee Rees based on the novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan and starring Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, Jason Mitchell, and Garrett Hedlund:
“In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad. This epic pioneer story is about friendship, heritage and the unending struggle for and against the land.”
Those are beautiful pictures, let’s hope the actual movie will be on par!
Have you read the novel the film is based on? Is it any good?
The film has yet to get an official release date.
Stay tuned with us for more details bout the movie Mudbound.
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I’ve read the novel (the author is my girlfriend’s cousin). It’s a really good story, told in the first person, successively, by the diffrerent characters chapter by chapter. It gives a vivid picture of life in the Mississippi Delta in the mid-1940’s, and the rather complex nature of Southern racism. The characters are based on the author’s family ancestors (though most of the events in the story are fictional). Some current family members won’t read it because of the depiction of the story’s villain, “pappy” McAllen, who some elders have fond memories of. The book was a real “page turner”, and the story should make a pretty good movie, if they don’t mess it up and leave too much out, or change too much of it.