HBO Acquires Jeffrey Wright-Led Feature Film O.G.

HBO has acquired the Jeffrey Wright-led feature film, "O.G." according to Variety.

The film is directed by Madeleine Sackler and written by Stephen Belber. "O.G." was shot in its entirety on location at Indiana's maximum-security Pendleton Correctional Facility.

The film premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, where Wright won the award for best actor in a U.S. narrative feature film.

Wright plays Louis, once the head of a prominent prison gang, in the final weeks of his 24-year sentence. His impending release is upended when he takes a new arrival under his wing.

Len Amato, president, HBO Films said, "We are proud to bring filmmaker Madeleine Sackler's film to HBO audiences. Groundbreaking in being filmed at an actual prison, with many of the men incarcerated there cast in acting roles, O.G. takes an intimate and unflinching look at THE JOURNEY of one man - masterfully portrayed by Jeffrey Wright - at the precipice of freedom."

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