Based on Bryan Stevenson's award-winning book, Just Mercy follows the public interest lawyer's journey as he creates and fights for justice through the Equal Justice Initiative.
The film stars Michael B. Jordan as Stevenson, alongside Brie Larson as Eva Lansley, an advocate who works with Stevenson to repair the broken justice system, and Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, an inmate who was wrongly incarcerated and spending his life on death row in an Alabama state prison.
Although the book follows many of the cases Stevenson has worked on, the film adaptation seems to focus on a choice few in particular, and is primarily set in Alabama where Stevenson got his start. Mashable discussed Just Mercy and more of Stevenson's upcoming work with the influential lawyer in June.
"If I want this to become an era of truth and reconciliation, then I realized I was going to have to just be out there a little bit more," Stevenson told Mashable. "We want people to engage differently with history and think differently about these issues."
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