Under this light comes a film called 'Dope', written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, who previously made 'The Wood' and 'Brown Sugar'. His latest effort was generally seen as the breakout hit film everybody was talking about at this year's festival and tells the story Malcolm (played by Shameik Moore), a 90's obsessed geek, living in modern times Inglewood, California, who finds himself caught up in a drug dealer's ring. From the look of this very first trailer, released this week, it looks to be a hip hop influenced light comedy. The film is produced by Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (who plays the narrator in the story), Pharrell Williams and Sean ''Diddy' Combs. The cast includes Kimberly Elise ('Set It Off'), Zoe Kravitz ('X-Men: First Class) and rapper A$AP Rocky and is due for release in the US on 19 June.
It definitely looks mighty promising....