Selma

Selma (2014)

Timing: 2:7 (127 min)

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Release date

2014-12-25

Country

France, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Ingenious Media, Plan B Entertainment, Pathé, Cloud Eight Films, Celador Films, Harpo Films

Genre

History, Drama

Budget

$20 000 000

Revenue

$66 787 908

Website

https://www.paramount.com/movies/selma

Director

Ava DuVernay

Actors

David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Roth, André Holland, Colman Domingo, Common, Stephan James, Omar J. Dorsey
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Scenario

Paul Webb, Ava DuVernay

Producer

Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, Christian Colson, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt, Cameron McCracken, Ava DuVernay, Paul Goodwin Garnes, Diarmuid McKeown, Nan Morales

Operator

Bradford Young

Composer

Jason Moran

Artist

Audition

Aisha Coley

Editing

Spencer Averick
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• Development of the film began in 2008, and by late 2009 Lee Daniels began negotiations to direct. However, in the summer Daniels left the project to film "The Butler".
• Until July 2013, the project was on hold, until Ava DuVernay signed on to direct it after rewriting the screenplay with its original author, Paul Webb.
• David Oyelowo was the only actor to carry over from the planned 2010 project to the 2014 project. Robert De Niro, Hugh Jackman, Cedric "The Entertainer", Lenny Kravitz, and Liam Neeson, who were cast in 2010, left the project.
• Principal photography began on May 20, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia, while filming in Selma, Alabama was scheduled for June 23-26.
• Until July 2013, the project was on hold until Ava DuVernay signed on to direct it, after rewriting the script with its original author, Paul Webb.
• It turned out that the heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. have already sold the rights to use King's speeches in defense of human rights to the film companies "DreamWorks" and "Warner Brothers" for use in a future biopic. For this film, director Ava DuVernay wrote new versions of these King speeches.
• Film development began in 2008, and by late 2009, Lee Daniels began negotiations to direct. However, Daniels left the project in the summer to film “The Butler”.
• David Oyelowo was the only actor to carry over from the planned 2010 project to the 2014 version. Robert De Niro, Hugh Jackman, Cedric “The Entertainer,” Lenny Kravitz, and Liam Neeson, who were cast in 2010, left the project.
• It turned out that the heirs of Martin Luther King Jr. had already sold the rights to use King’s speeches on human rights to the film companies “DreamWorks” and “Warner Brothers” for use in a future biopic. For this film, director Ava DuVernay wrote new versions of these King speeches.