{"id":39312,"date":"2015-01-07T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39312"},"modified":"2015-01-07T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T19:53:24","slug":"gugu-mbatha-raw-to-star-opposite-matthew-mcconaughey-in-gary-ross-free-state-of-jones-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39312","title":{"rendered":"Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross\u2019 \u2018Free State of Jones\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/gugu-mbatha-raw-to-play-matthew-mcconaugheys-wife-in-gary-ross-free-state-of-jones-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross\u2019 \u2018Free State of Jones\u2019 (Exclusive)<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Wrap: Covering Hollywood<\/a><br \/>\n2014-01-06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theinsneider\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jeff Sneider<\/strong><\/a>, Film Reporter<\/p>\n<p><em>Scott Stuber and Jon Kilik are producing the Civil War tale for Robert Simonds\u2019 STX Entertainment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hot off a pair of acclaimed performances in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beyond_the_Lights\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond the Lights<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belle_(2013_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Belle<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gugu_Mbatha-Raw\" target=\"_blank\">Gugu Mbatha-Raw<\/a> will star opposite <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matthew_McConaughey\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a> in Gary Ross\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a> movie \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1124037\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free State of Jones<\/a>,\u201d <em>TheWrap<\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Simonds\u2019 STX Entertainment is producing the $65 million movie and co-financing with foreign sales company IM Global. STX will handle domestic distribution, while IM Global will handle foreign rights. CAA brokered the domestic deal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3718\" target=\"_blank\">Based on a true story<\/a>, \u201cFree State of Jones\u201d will star McConaughey as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton_Knight\" target=\"_blank\">Newton Knight<\/a> and Mbatha-Raw as Rachel, a slave whose relationship with Knight played a central part in his life and in his armed rebellion against the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\">Confederacy<\/a> during the Civil War&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/gugu-mbatha-raw-to-play-matthew-mcconaugheys-wife-in-gary-ross-free-state-of-jones-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross\u2019 \u2018Free State of Jones\u2019 (Exclusive) The Wrap: Covering Hollywood 2014-01-06 Jeff Sneider, Film Reporter Scott Stuber and Jon Kilik are producing the Civil War tale for Robert Simonds\u2019 STX Entertainment Hot off a pair of acclaimed performances in \u201cBeyond the Lights\u201d and \u201cBelle,\u201d Gugu Mbatha-Raw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,459,8,20],"tags":[5505,15676,19005,19008,18372,1456,4374,19007,19006,19004],"class_list":["post-39312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-gary-ross","tag-gugu-mbatha-raw","tag-jeff-sneider","tag-jon-kilik","tag-matthew-mcconaughey","tag-newton-knight","tag-rachel-knight","tag-scott-stuber","tag-the-wrap","tag-the-wrap-covering-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}