Beautiful Jim Key Movie Updates

Sat., May. 17, 2014

from Yahoo! Movies

Morgan Freeman Saddles Up for Horse Drama ‘Beautiful Jim Key’

Morgan Freeman is on board to star in historical horse story “Beautiful Jim Key” with Robert Rodat making his directorial debut.

• changed the production status to Development
• added Cargo Entertainment as a production company
• added The Mark Gordon Company as a production company
• added drama as genre
• added Morgan Freeman as actor to credits
• added Mark Gordon as producer to credits
• added Robert Rodat as director and screenwriter to credits
• added a synopsis

• The story centers on the showman Dr. William Key and his performing horse, Beautiful Jim Key. His promoters claimed the horse could read, write and do math. Key, a former slave, was relegated to carnivals so he recruited a one-time promoter for P.... show all T. Barnum to be his front man — leading to the horse becoming a national sensation at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition.

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