Nickel Boys
Country
Production
Budget
$23 200 000
Box office
$3 016 380
Director
Actors
Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Hamish Linklater, Gralen Bryant Banks, Fred Hechinger, Jimmie Fails, Luke Tennie, Bryan Gael Guzman, Ethan Cole Sharp
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, David Levine, Colson Whitehead, Kenneth Yu, Emily Wolfe, Gabby Shepard, Chadwick Prichard, Brad Pitt
Camera operator
Composer
Scott Alario
Artist
Nora Mendis, Timotheus Davis
Audition
Editing
Nicholas Monsour, Chelsea Krant
Whole Team (148)
Whole Team (148)
Short description
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the scene with the adult Elwood (played by Ethan Heriss), a fragment of Stanley Kramer's 1958 black-and-white crime drama 'The Defiant Ones' with Sidney Poitier is shown on television. This same film by Kramer is mentioned in Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel 'The Nickel Boys,' which served as the literary source for the screenplay. Whitehead became one of the screenwriters of 'The Nickel Boys'.
- In the scene with the adult Elwood (played by Ethan Heriss), a clip from Stanley Kramer's black-and-white crime drama 'The Defiant Ones' (1958) starring Sidney Poitier is shown on television. This same Kramer film is mentioned in Colson Whitehead's novel 'The Nickel Boys' (2019), which served as the literary source for the screenplay. Whitehead became one of the screenwriters for 'The Nickel Boys'.
- When Ethan Heriss first read the script for the upcoming film, he focused on the plot twists and the relationships between the characters, overlooking the fine-print lines indicating from whose perspective a particular scene would be filmed. He only realized how unusual the project would be on the first day of shooting, when the camera was mounted on him.
- When Ethan Heriss first became acquainted with the script for the future film, he focused on the plot's twists and turns and the relationships between the characters, skipping over the lines printed in small print that indicated from whose point of view a particular scene would be filmed. He only realized how unusual this project would be on the first day of filming, when the camera was hung on him.
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