“Vigilance, reverence and respect,” Williams said were guiding principles in writing the script. To turn the book into a screenplay, Williams said he got to know both Canedy and her son and studied King’s journal with Washington, expressing that he wanted to honor the soldier who he calls a “legitimate American hero.” So we kind of had all of the right ingredients.” It’s a romance so it’s important we had a romantic lead. “As an actor, he looks like a soldier he’s built like a soldier he’s built like Charles, and he has the acting chops to pull it off emotionally. “ was really right for it on a lot of levels,” Black told THR. To play King, Black says, they considered both Washington, who directed the film, and who Black says “got too old” to play the leading man, and Jordan. The movie, which hit theaters on Christmas Day, is also the fulfillment of a promise, Black said, that both he and Washington made to Canedy: that the film would get made for her and her son in their lifetime. Charles King and his lessons for his young son, born in 2006, shared via a journal King wrote before he died in Iraq later that same year. 'Equalizer 3' Box Office: Denzel Washington Wins Over Older Adults in Rare Feat for Any Actorīoth the film and Canedy’s book of the same name tell of her romance with First Sgt. Jordan before the film went into production. It took years of script work, interrupted by other projects, and bringing on screenwriter Virgil Williams and star Michael B. “And I went to Denzel Washington, who I have a long relationship with, and I asked him if he would be willing to do it with me, producing it, maybe directing it.” “I loved it, and I went to Sony, where my deal was, and I asked them to buy it for me,” Black told The Hollywood Reporter at the Journal for Jordan premiere in New York earlier this month.
It was nearly 15 years ago when A Journal for Jordan producer Todd Black first read Dana Canedy’s memoir of love, loss and family on which the film is based.
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