Howdy, pardners. It’s been confirmed that Netflix has lassoed the worldwide rights to Ricky Staub’s feature directorial debut CONCRETE COWBOY starring Idris Elba and Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin. The film centers around a teenager (McLaughlin) who discovers the world of urban horseback riding when he moves in with his estranged father (Elba) in North Philadelphia. The urban Western told through the lens of a father-son drama made its world premiere at TIFF last month, where our own Chris Bumbray was in attendance.
In his review, Bumbray describes the film as an “enjoyable, relatively family-friendly urban drama,” that paints a pretty compelling picture of North Philly’s real-life cowboy community, the Fletcher Street Stables – a black urban horsemanship collective. To read Chris’s full review, click here.
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CONCRETE COWBOY has yet to receive an official release date, but I’d wager you’ll find it moseying onto Netflix sometime in 2021.
