Kelvin Harrison Jr. to Star in 'Chevalier de Saint-Georges'

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Kelvin Harrison Jr. Lands Lead in Searchlight’s Period Biopic ‘Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ https://t.co/v8SfLk1Sfp
- Variety (@Variety) April 1, 2021

Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Waves, Luce) has been cast as the lead in Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an upcoming period biopic about the artist known by the same name. The illegitimate son of a French plantation

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[gloeden2]

Even as a joke, that idea feels like a hate crime.

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[gloeden2]

Mmmmm...yaaaas...let him rise to fame. Rise, zaddy, rise!

[winter_lace]

you have my attention

[anterrabre]

Chevalier de Saint-Georges's life story is remarkable; I'll definitely be watching this.

[little_vienna]

I'm all here for a movie about Saint-Georges but uhhhh, hmm.

He rose to fame in French society, but after an love affair gone wrong and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court, his downfall was swift.Unless they've discovered some new trove of information, it sounds like they're fictionalizing some drama with Marie Antoinette that didn't happen and framing it as his "downfall." He didn't have a "downfall" caused by any falling out with Marie Antoinette or the French court

[crowdedstreets]

I mean I don't think they're aiming for an academic work.

[little_vienna]

It doesn't have to be academic to be accurate, though, and it's frustrating IMO that the first major film about him looks like it's going to be a heavily fictionalized, made up version of events where the major catalyst in his life is a fictional falling out with the Marie Antoinette/the French court that causes his "downfall," which didn't really happen (the falling out, or the downfall, at least not in that context