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Paramount<\/a> has landed Elegance Bratton\u2019s<\/a> crime thriller, By Any Means, <\/em>which stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Mark Wahlberg.<\/p>\n The studio has given the film a Labor Day weekend release later this year on Sept. 4. The film is a real-life inspired, Civil Rights Era pic set in Mississippi in 1966. Nicole Beharie, David Strathairn, Giancarlo Esposito, Josh Lucas and Ethan Embry also star in the film.<\/p>\n Per the logline, the film \u201ca volatile partnership between a hardened mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent as they are forced into an uneasy alliance to track down those responsible for the killing of civil rights leaders \u2014 uncovering a conspiracy that tests the limits of justice, loyalty, and survival.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a story about unlikely alliances forged under impossible circumstances \u2014 where justice is not clean, and the truth comes at a cost,\u201d said Bratton in a statement, per Variety<\/a>. \u201cI wanted to explore what it means to confront violence not just as an act, but as a system \u2014 and what it demands of those caught inside it.\u201d<\/p>\n Bratton made a splash with his 2022 A24 film, The Inspection, <\/em>which is inspired by events in his life and starred Jeremy Pope and Gabrielle Union. He also previously directed the 2019 documentary Pier Kids, <\/em>and more recently, the documentary Move Ya Body: The Birth of House<\/em>.<\/p>\n The screenplay was written by Power Book III: Raising Kanan <\/em>showrunner Sascha Penn. Bratton and Chester Algernal Gordon produce under Freedom Principle, while Alex Lebovici produces for Hammerstone Studios, Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee for Thunder Road, as well as Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson for Municipal.<\/p>\n The post Yahya Abdul-Mateen II And Mark Wahlberg Film \u2018By Any Means,\u2019 Directed By Elegance Bratton, Lands At Paramount<\/a> appeared first on Blavity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paramount has landed Elegance Bratton\u2019s crime thriller, By Any Means, which stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Mark Wahlberg. The studio has given the film a Labor Day weekend release later this year on Sept. 4. The film is a real-life inspired, Civil Rights Era pic set in Mississippi in 1966. Nicole Beharie, David Strathairn, Giancarlo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2370470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[460854,351571,409780,460855,323890,396152,356185,26992,363121,309230],"class_list":["post-2370469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-any-means","tag-david-strathairn","tag-elegance-bratton","tag-ethan-embry","tag-giancarlo-esposito","tag-josh-lucas","tag-labor-day-weekend","tag-mark-wahlberg","tag-nicole-beharie","tag-paramount"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Yahya-Abdul-Mateen-II-And-Mark-Wahlberg-Film-\u2018By-Any-Means.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370471,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370469\/revisions\/2370471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bratton\u2019s film \u2018The Inspection\u2019 was critically acclaimed<\/h2>\n