Denzel Washington’s last directorial effort, the 2016 drama Fences, showed his ability to bring a Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play to the screen, while also keeping tight focus on the powerful performances of his lead actors (in that case, himself and Viola Davis). It means something that Washington chose A Journal for Jordan as a script he wanted to direct, and it’s electric to think of just how good Michael B. Jordan might be able to be under the guidance of Washington, one of the greatest actors of our generation. Imagine the work that Denzel is pulling out of MBJ? We need to see this, instantly.

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