Trailer for Idris Elba's Film CONCRETE COWBOYS About the Fletcher Street Cowboys
Netflix has released the first trailer for Idris Elba’s upcoming film Concrete Cowboy. The film was inspired by the novel Ghetto Cowboy written by G. Neri, and it’s based on the real-life Fletcher Street cowboys. The movie tells a moving father-son story about a teen caught between a life of crime and his estranged father’s vibrant urban-cowboy subculture. It looks like a wonderful and unique movie!
The movie also stars Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things, High Flying Bird) as fifteen-year-old Cole, who is expelled from school in Detroit, and “is sent to North Philadelphia to live with Harp (Elba), his estranged father. Harp finds solace in rehabilitating horses for inner city cowboys at the Fletcher Street Stables, a real-life black urban horsemanship community that has provided a safe haven for the neighborhood residents for more than 100 years. Torn between his growing respect for his father’s community and his reemerging friendship with troubled cousin Smush (Jharrel Jerome), Cole begins to reprioritize his life as the stables themselves are threatened by encroaching gentrification.”
The movie was directed by Ricky Staub from a script he wrote with Dan Walser. The movie also stars Jharrel Jerome, Byron Bowers, Lorraine Toussaint, and Clifford “Method Man” Smith.
Concrete Cowboys will hit Netflix on April 2nd.