Jordan in mind to play Grant before writing the script. The film received funding from the Feature Film Program (FFP) and the San Francisco Film Society.Ĭoogler had Michael B. Coogler met with advisers of Sundance Screenwriters Lab and developed the script with the help of creative advisors Tyger Williams, Jessie Nelson and Zach Sklar.
He soon had a meeting with Whitaker, who supported Fruitvale. Coogler met Head of Production Nina Yang Bongiovi and showed her his projects. In January 2011, Forest Whitaker's production company was looking for new young filmmakers to mentor. Coogler expressed his desire to make a film about Grant's last day: "I wanted the audience to get to know this guy, to get attached, so that when the situation that happens to him happens, it's not just like you read it in the paper, you know what I mean? When you know somebody as a human being, you know that life means something." Coogler met the Grant family's attorney, John Burris, through a mutual friend, and also met with and worked with Grant's family. Ryan Coogler was a graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts when Grant was shot on January 1, 2009. Chad Michael Murray as Officer Ingram (based on Johannes Mehserle).Kevin Durand as Officer Caruso (based on Tony Pirone).
It was released in theaters on July 12, 2013. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for Best First Film. Melonie Diaz, Ahna O'Reilly and Octavia Spencer also star.įruitvale Station debuted under its original title, Fruitvale, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. Jordan as Grant, with Kevin Durand and Chad Michael Murray playing the two BART police officers involved in Grant's death, although their names were changed for the film. It is Coogler's feature directorial debut and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man killed in 2009 by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale district station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in Oakland. Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler.
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