Director: Rachel Morrison
Writer(s): Barry Jenkins
Starring: Brian Tyree Henry, Olunike Adeliyi, Ryan Destiny, De’Adre Aziza, Lanette Ware, Tyrone Benskin, Michael Brown, Adam Clark, Jessica Grossi, Amanda Barker, Cynthia Zhou, Patrick Dussault, Ivan D. Ossa, Bobby Daniels, Idrissa Sanogo, Jazmin Headley, Nendia Lewars, Laura Vincent, Kevin Lloyd Reid, Selina An, Zak Morris, Sekhai Jayden Smith, Emmanuel Igboke, James Finlay Fraser, Chidubem Rafael Echendu, Taytem Douglas, Kenya Salmon, Jack Nguyen, Shubei Zheng
Synopsis: A 17-year-old Claressa T-Rex Shields, a Flint, Mich, native whose dreams of becoming the first woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing were realized at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Shields won a second gold medal in women’s middleweight boxing. Based on T-Rex, a 2015 documentary about Shields.
Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sports | MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some strong language, thematic elements, and brief suggestive material. | Note(s): Barry Jenkins and Elishia Holmes are producers on this project. Also known as “Untitled Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields Project”. There hasn’t been an update on this title in a while. IMDB still has it listed as post-production. If there is no update by the next expiration I’m moving it to “Limbo”.