‘A Journal For Jordan’ Brings A Father’s Life Lessons For Son To Screen
Oscar winning actor Denzel
Washington returns to the director’s chair for
drama “A Journal
for Jordan”, a story about love and life lessons based on a
memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Dana Canedy.
Starring “Black
Panther” actor
Michael B. Jordan and “Monsters and Men” actress Chante
Adams, the movie tells the story of how after Canedy’s fiancé
U.S. Army First Sergeant Charles King was killed during the Iraq war, she
turned a journal he left for their son into an essay and later a book.
The film depicts the teachings King
wrote to the then infant Jordan and the couple’s love
story.
“I read (the
script) and I went ‘Whoa. Oh, we got something here, I’ll direct
this’,” Washington
told Reuters in an interview.
Jordan, also a producer on the film,
said its message was simple: “I want people to take away from this
movie that. through love anything’s possible.”
King began writing the journal in
2005. Former journalist Canedy, who was part of a New York Times team that won
the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for a series on race relations in the United States,
published her memoir in 2008.
She said King would be moved by the
film.
“He would be
humbled. He would be bashful about it and he would be incredibly proud,” said
Canedy, currently senior vice president and publisher at Simon & Schuster.
“A Journal
for Jordan” will be released in U.S. cinemas on Dec. 25.