The short life and meteoric rise of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will once again be told on the silver screen in an upcoming biopic directed by Nigerian American filmmaker Julius Onah
will once again be told on the silver screen in an upcoming biopic directed by Nigerian American filmmaker Julius Onah.
Actor Kelvin Harrison Jr., star of the 2019 films"Waves" and"Luce" -- the latter of which was directed by Onah -- will play the Haitian and Puerto Rican visual artist, whose trailblazing career helped define New York's East Village art scene in the 1980s. The news was announced via a website for the film, which is titled"Samo Lives" in reference to Basquiat's famous graffiti tag"SAMO©.
"It was incredible to discover someone who boldly forged his own path into a world where most who didn't fit the expected profile of a fine artist had been unable to ," Onah wrote. Basquiat rose to fame as a protégé of Warhol, and their deaths within a two years of each other rocked the art world.
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