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Concrete Cowboy had the cast, including Caleb McLaughlin and Jharrel Jerome, shooting on location and among the actual cowboys the Netflix film is about.
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Concrete Cowboy, by first-time feature director Ricky Staub, has occasional bursts of exciting filmmaking, but it’s kept afloat largely by the innate charisma of its cast.
Everything you need to know before Idris Elba gets back in the saddle in Netflix's Concrete Cowboy.
Netflix has just acquired the global rights to Concrete Cowboy, a modern-day western starring Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas from Stranger Things). As reported by Deadline, there’s no release date yet for the film, but it’s likely we can expect it sometime next year. Unfortunately we’ll have to wait a few months before we can see Elba as a smoldering cowboy. [caption id="attachment_941894" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via STX Films[/caption] The film, directed by Ricky Staub and screened at TIFF earlier this year, is about a teenager named Cole (McLaughlin) who has …
The urban cowboys of North Philadelphia are a real thing. While American history has whitewashed the image of the cowboy into a white man, these Black riders have taken care of horses for generations and continue to do so into the modern day even as the world radically changes around them. The intersection of their personal identity and American iconography is fascinating, but unfortunately Concrete Cowboy director Ricky Staub forces it to reside in a fairly predictable coming-of-age story. Despite strong performances from the cast, Concrete Cowboy undermines its unique world by trying to tell a broad bildungsroman …
Hot off his villainous turn in Hobbs and Shaw, Idris Elba has signed on for the indie movie Concrete Cowboys alongside rising stars Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things) and Jharrel Jerome, the latter of whom is currently up for an Emmy for his devastating turn in When They See Us. Ricky Staub is directing from a script he co-wrote with Dan Walser, and production is already under way. According to Deadline, McLaughlin will play a teen who's taken to live with his estranged father (Elba) in North Philadelphia, where he discovers the city’s vibrant urban cowboy subculture, which …