Rob Peace: Chiwetel Ejiofor Reveals How the Story Inspired Him to Explore Family Dynamics
The father/son dynamic in Rob Peace was something that drew director and star Chiwetel Ejiofor to the project — and that family dynamic remained a guiding light throughout production. The filmmaker told ComicBook that he thought the real-life Rob Peace was treated unfairly by the media, and that part of the idea behind the movie is to humanize him, and to help continue the process of moving beyond the initial way the man’s story was colored by the press. That’s a process that started with a book by Jeff Hobbs, on which the movie itself is based.