Boots Riley has spent most of his professional career involved in creating music. He has been a part of the political hip-hop act, The Coup, to bring awareness of important causes through song and has teamed-up with like-minded musicians like Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine to organize and rally against social injustice.
So it's a little unexpected that Riley has written and directed his first feature film, "Sorry To Bother You". This wildly outlandish comedy made a major splash in January at the Sundance Film Festival and was recently screened at the South By Southwest fest where it also received plenty of thrilled raves.
Set in Oakland, CA, Lakeith Stanfield (who appeared memorably as a "victim" in "Get Out") stars as a young African-American telemarketer who adapts a "white voice" to become a huge success at his job. It's safe to assume that there will certainly be a political statement to be made in this very out-there satire. The inspired cast includes Tessa Thompson, Terry Crews, Danny Glover, Steven Yeun and Armie Hammer. Patton Oswalt, David Cross and Steve Buscemi are also on board to provide "the white voices".
"Sorry To Bother You" is due in U.S. theaters on July 6, 2018
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