The movie is based on Bryan Stevenson's 2014 book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx ... McMillian in Just Mercy (2019), he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Foxx also embarked on ...

In 2019, producer Scott Budnick was meeting with Barack Obama in Washington after the former president screened an early cut of his legal drama Just Mercy, in which Jamie Foxx plays an Alabama man ...