How Destin Daniel Cretton's drama 'Just Mercy' is a real-life superhero film
When Destin Daniel Cretton begins filming Marvel's highly anticipated "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" in the new year, he'll consider it the second superhero movie he will have made.
The first is "Just Mercy" starring Michael B. Jordan as civil rights defense lawyer Bryan Stevenson, whose career-long crusade to save individuals from the death penalty and effect criminal justice reform is about to get its own origin story onscreen.
After an awards-qualifying run in limited release beginning Christmas Day, the film will open nationwide on Jan. 10. But the attorney and activist at the center of "Just Mercy" entered the Hollywood spotlight in August after a special screening of the film in Los Angeles, when Cretton and actors Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson and Jamie Foxx - all of whom have Marvel movies on their resumes - assembled for an emotional Q&A. They were joined by Stevenson,
