Reinaldo Marcus Green

Reinaldo Marcus Green is an acclaimed director who has displayed a special knack for biopics. Green was the director/writer/producer of six short films between 2011 and 2015, which included work that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation and was capped with Stop (2015), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Green’s feature debut as director-writer was a drama that echoed the true-life case of the police killing of Eric Garner, Monsters and Men (2018), starring John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Rob Morgan, and released by Neon. Green returned as director only of the father-son drama co-written by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Joe Bell (2020), starring Mark Wahlberg, Reid Miller, Connie Britton, and Gary Sinise, and released to the modest box office by Roadside Attractions after a Toronto film festival premiere.

Green had his filmmaking breakthrough as director with the widely acclaimed King Richard (2021), starring Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Tony Goldwyn, and Jon Bernthal, earning six Oscar nominations (with a Smith best actor win, a best picture nomination, but not a directing nod for Green) after premiering at the Telluride film festival. Reinaldo Marcus Green was director and co-writer (with Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers, and Zach Baylin) of his second biopic, Bob Marley: One Love (2024), starring Kingsley Ben-Adir (as Marley), Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Sevana, and Tosin Cole, and released by Paramount Pictures.