After making his debut in 2007 with the impressive drama Shotgun Stories, Jeff Nichols went on a tear in the first half of the following decade with Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special, and Loving. While it’s been a few years since we’ve heard from the Arkansas-born director, he’s now finally returning with his sixth feature.
Variety reports he’ll be reteaming with his Midnight Special star Adam Driver for Yankee Comandante. Based on a 2012 New Yorker article by David Grann (author of the source material for James Gray’s The Lost City of Z and Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming Killers of the Flower Moon), the story follows the two people who rose to the rank of comandante during the Cuban Revolution, one being Che Guevara and the other William Alexander Morgan, a man from Ohio, who Driver will presumably play.
“Morgan helped Fidel Castro and the Cuban rebels overthrow Fulgencio Batista,...
Variety reports he’ll be reteaming with his Midnight Special star Adam Driver for Yankee Comandante. Based on a 2012 New Yorker article by David Grann (author of the source material for James Gray’s The Lost City of Z and Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming Killers of the Flower Moon), the story follows the two people who rose to the rank of comandante during the Cuban Revolution, one being Che Guevara and the other William Alexander Morgan, a man from Ohio, who Driver will presumably play.
“Morgan helped Fidel Castro and the Cuban rebels overthrow Fulgencio Batista,...
- 4/30/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Adam Driver will reunite with his Loving and Midnight Special director Jeff Nichols for Yankee Comandante, Deadline has confirmed. The film will be an adaptation of a New Yorker article by David Grann that follows two men who rose to the rank of Comandante during the Cuban Revolution.
The article is about William Alexander Morgan, an American from Ohio who helped Fidel Castro and the Cuban rebels overthrow Fulgencio Batista. He’d reached the status of comandante, the sole foreigner other than Argentinian Che Guevara to be so highly regarded. Soon after, Morgan’s motives became suspect, and he was imprisoned. He faced a firing squad, charged with working for U.S. intelligence. At the same time, his exploits as a rebel soldier led J. Edgar Hoover and everyone else scrambling to sort out his motives and who he was working for.
Yankee Comandante is separate from Focus Features and...
The article is about William Alexander Morgan, an American from Ohio who helped Fidel Castro and the Cuban rebels overthrow Fulgencio Batista. He’d reached the status of comandante, the sole foreigner other than Argentinian Che Guevara to be so highly regarded. Soon after, Morgan’s motives became suspect, and he was imprisoned. He faced a firing squad, charged with working for U.S. intelligence. At the same time, his exploits as a rebel soldier led J. Edgar Hoover and everyone else scrambling to sort out his motives and who he was working for.
Yankee Comandante is separate from Focus Features and...
- 4/30/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Adam Driver is set to re-team with his director on “Midnight Special,” Jeff Nichols, for a film about the Cuban Revolution called “Yankee Comandante,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Nichols is writing and directing the movie that 30West and Imperative Entertainment are in discussions with studios after the package was shopped to distributors.
“Yankee Comandante” is based on a 2012 David Grann article published in The New Yorker about an American, William Alexander Morgan, who rose to the rank of comandante alongside Che Guevara in the 1960s during the Cuban Revolution that helped bring Fidel Castro to power. Here’s the official logline:
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Two people rose to the rank of Comandante in the Cuban Revolution. One was Che Guevara. The other was a man from Ohio; this is his story.
Nichols is writing and directing the movie that 30West and Imperative Entertainment are in discussions with studios after the package was shopped to distributors.
“Yankee Comandante” is based on a 2012 David Grann article published in The New Yorker about an American, William Alexander Morgan, who rose to the rank of comandante alongside Che Guevara in the 1960s during the Cuban Revolution that helped bring Fidel Castro to power. Here’s the official logline:
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Two people rose to the rank of Comandante in the Cuban Revolution. One was Che Guevara. The other was a man from Ohio; this is his story.
- 4/30/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
It’s a “Midnight Special” reunion! As announced today, Adam Driver and director Jeff Nichols will reunite for the upcoming adaptation of “Yankee Comandante.” According to Variety, the drama is a true-to-life Cuban Revolution story based on the 2012 story in The New Yorker of the same name by David Grann. Nichols is both writing and directing the film, which is his first feature since another true story, “Loving” from 2016, which earned Ruth Negga an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Driver previously starred for Nichols alongside Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, and Sam Shepard in “Midnight Special,” which, like “Loving,” also released in 2016. “Yankee Comandante” will star Driver as a U.S. citizen from Ohio who fought in the Cuban Revolution. Like Che Guevara, William Alexander Morgan rose to power, helping to drive the Cuban army through enemy lines against then-Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, and helping to secure Fidel Castro’s victory.
Driver previously starred for Nichols alongside Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, and Sam Shepard in “Midnight Special,” which, like “Loving,” also released in 2016. “Yankee Comandante” will star Driver as a U.S. citizen from Ohio who fought in the Cuban Revolution. Like Che Guevara, William Alexander Morgan rose to power, helping to drive the Cuban army through enemy lines against then-Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, and helping to secure Fidel Castro’s victory.
- 4/30/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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