The true story of Robert Peace, a Yale graduate whose promising life was tragically cut short, is coming to the big screen in the film Rob Peace.
The newly released trailer offers a look at the drama, which stars Jay Will (Tulsa King) as a brilliant young man caught between his father’s troubled past and his own bright future.
Academy Award nominee Mary J. Blige portrays Rob’s devoted mother, while Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) plays his imprisoned father, according to the official description.
The drama also features Gbenga Akinnagbe, Michael Kelly, Mare Winningham, and Camila Cabello.
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The film is based on New York Times bestseller The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs — who was Peace’s college roommate — and chronicles the life of the 2002 Yale graduate.
Despite his Ivy League education in molecular biochemistry, Peace was killed in an apparent drug-related shooting in Newark, New Jersey, in 2011.
The New Jersey Star-Ledger reported Peace, then 30, was using his biochemistry knowledge to earn $1,000 a day selling marijuana. He was shot to death in the basement of a so-called drug “growhouse.” No charges were filed in his death.
Rob Peace premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews from critics.
The film is written and directed by Ejiofor. Blige serves as an executive producer alongside Jamin O’Brien, Morgan Earnest, Luke Rodgers, Jeff Skoll, Robert Kessel, Bruce Evans, Faye Stapleton, Ali Jazayeri, and David Gendron.
The producing team includes Antoine Fuqua, Rebecca Hobbs, Jeffrey Soros, Simon Horsman, Andrea Calderwood, Kat Samick, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet.
Republic Pictures (a Paramount Pictures label) is the distributor.
Rob Peace will be released in theaters on Aug. 16, 2024.
Watch the trailer for the film below:
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