Jeffrey Wright Is O.G. – Premiering Saturday, February 23 on HBO! Score By Nathaniel Mechaly Coming Soon
Premiering Saturday, February 23 is HBO’s new drama, O.G., starring Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright! The film premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, where Wright won the award for Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film. Theothus Carter and William Fichtner also star. O.G. features score by award-winning Composer Nathaniel Méchaly, known for his scores to the Taken film franchise and two-time Academy Award®-nominated film, The Grandmaster, among many others. More details coming soon!
HBO presents O.G., airing Saturday, February 23 (10 PM) on HBO Go and HBO Now!
O.G. follows Louis (Jeffrey Wright), once the head of a prominent prison gang, in the final weeks of his 24-year sentence. His impending release is upended when he takes new arrival Beecher (Theothus Carter), who is being courted by gang leadership, under his wing. Coming to grips with the indelibility of his crime and the challenge of reentering society, Louis finds his freedom hanging in the balance as he struggles to save Beecher.
Subscribe and Follow:Groundbreaking in being filmed at an actual prison, with many of the men incarcerated there cast in acting roles, O.G. takes an intimate and unflinching look at the journey of one man at the precipice of freedom.
The film premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, where Wright won the award for Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature Film. Theothus Carter and William Fichtner also star.