The Problem of the Hero (2025)
"Not every friendship can survive the artistic process."
85 min
In 1940, author Richard Wright turns to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green to help adapt his best-selling book, Native Son, into a Broadway play. Days from opening night, they differ over a single page of the script.
- Release date
- February 17, 2023
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Fred Story
- Budget
- $200,000
Cast
- J. Mardrice Henderson as Richard Wright
- David zum Brunnen as Paul Green
- J. Antoine Hendrick as Young Richard Wright
- Derrick Ivey as Ray Collins
- Dena Konkel as Janet Green
- Brandon Haynes as Canada Lee
- Josephine Hall as Nell Harrison
- Charlie Cannon as Orson Welles
- Lex Wilson as Walter Ash
- Alexa Yeames as Jean Rosenthal
Crew
- Shaun Dozier · Director
- James A. Hodge · Writer
- Ian Finley · Writer
- Ayana Johnson · Producer
- Lenora Zenzalai Helm · Composer
- Fred Story · Composer
- Steve Milligan · Cinematographer
- Shaun Dozier · Editor
- Kendra Archer · Production designer