Here is a first clip from "Southside With You," the "Before Sunset"-style film which takes place entirely in one day, set during the summer of 1989, when one Barack Obama (then a first-year Harvard Law student) took his future wife, Michelle Robinson (an associate at a Chicago law firm), out on a first date, which included a tour of Chicago’s South Side.
The future couple also caught a screening of Spike Lee’s "Do the Right Thing" – something the president has talked about previously. I assume that moment in time will be incorporated into the script.
The film, which is directed by Richard Tanne, from his own screenplay (co-developed with co-star of the film Tika Sumpter), will make its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival next month, in Park City, UT.
Sumpter stars in the film (playing Michelle) while Parker Sawyers, known for parts in "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012) and "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" (2014), is Barack Obama.
IM Global CEO Stuart Ford, president of production Matt Jackson, Glendon Palmer and Tracy Bing all serve as executive producers.
Watch the clip below:
