Have you subscribed to theGrio’s podcast “Dear Culture”? Leave the World Behind follows two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. The renters of the vacation home are White, and the owners are Black. This is just one of several big-money deals this year that include salaries and backends for both filmmakers and stars. Roberts will play the mother of the family that rents a house and Washington will portray the homeowner. Posted on Monday, July 20th, 2020 by Ben Pearson. 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The issues of race and clash become distractions to the more alarming things are happening all around them. When the internet, television, and radio stop working, as does the landline, they have no way of finding out what is happening. Roberts will reportedly play the mother of the family that rents the house and Denzel Washington will play the homeowner. Netflix beat out companies like MGM and Apple for the global rights to this project. Denzel Washington is producing along with Julia Roberts through her Red Om Films banner and Sam Esmail and Chad Hamilton through Esmail Corp. Rumaan Alam is an executive producer. What farmers should be demanding instead of MSPs? Logo Concept by: Illumination Ink. 'Leave The World Behind': Release date, plot and all you need to know about Netflix drama starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. The high mark was set at a reported $120M by Apple for the runaway slave drama Emancipation with Antoine Fuqua directing and Will Smith in the lead role, according to Deadline. Für Julia Roberts und Denzel Washington ist "Leave the World Behind" nicht die erste Zusammenarbeit. Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? Washington is also attached to produce Netflix’s upcoming film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. 27 Jahre nach ihrem letzten gemeinsamen Film stehen Denzel Washington und Julia Roberts wieder zusammen vor der Kamera. Deadline reports that they’ll both star in Leave the World Behind, which is based on the forthcoming book by author Rumaan Alam which hits shelves this fall. 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