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Preston A. Whitmore II
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Teleplay By Biography:Like Carl Franklin (Devil in a Blue Dress) and Bryan Barber (Idlewild), one of African-American writer/director Preston A. Whitmore II's first career moves involved carrying mainstream black cinema in an unusual direction. The native Detroiter's 1995 debut, The Walking Dead, marked a cinematic first -- the premiere "black Vietnam film" -- and would have entailed an auspicious bow. Unfortunately, Whitmore's grade-A casting choices (Joe Morton and Eddie Griffin fill two of the key roles) and the ingenuity of his central concept failed to mesh with the dispiriting critical and public response. The San Francisco Chronicle's Peter Stack lamented, "There is a potentially great movie to be made about African-American military men fighting in Vietnam for an America tainted by racial unrest and oppression -- but The Walking Dead is not that film." And The Washington Post's Desson Howe remarked, "Walking... Full Biography
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