After powerful Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (Woody Harrelson) loses the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan), he agrees to be his young rival’s running mate.
The upcoming biopic stars Woody Harrelson in the role of the bombastic 36th President alongside Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan and Michael Stahl-David.
Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment announced today that it has acquired domestic distribution rights for director Rob Reiner’s LBJ.
LBJ had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, and is set for a theatrical release in 2017.