Just found out that Mike’s film, I’M CHARLIE WALKER is available for home media release. This is through both Amazon and Shout Factory. The link below is for the Amazon release. If you can please purchase this and support the filmmakers and creatives. Also show Mike some love. Click on the box art to order.
I wanted to give a heads up on where you can stream Mike’s film I’M CHARLIE WALKER. It’s available on Amazon. I’m going to implore you to go and watch this. If you’re a Mike Colter fan, which you would have to be to be here on the site, please take a look at this. Mike is amazing in it. And a personal thank you to @CWMovie1971 and on @imcharliewalkerfilm for their generous donation to help keep MIKE COLTER ONLINE online. Thank you so much.
Mike’s film I’M CHARLIE WALKER is now available on streaming platforms. Please support him and the filmmakers by going to the various platforms to stream. It helps the actors and the creatives associated with these films. Click on the graphic below for more information.
Mike’s film I’M CHARLIE WALKER is based on a real life event. Below is a little information on that.
‘I’m Charlie Walker’ Revisits One Of the Biggest Oil Spill Clean Ups In History
The biopic, ‘I’m Charlie Walker’, starring Mike Colter who played the epic character of Luke Cage is heading to the big screen.
Back in 1971, the story of Charlie Walker, a Black Man with one truck and big dreams began. In the early morning of Jan. 18, 1971, two tankers owned by Standard Oil collided under the Golden Gate Bridge, spilling 800,000 gallons of oil spilled into the San Francisco Bay. It would be the largest oil spill in Bay Area history, and an event that changed Charlie’s life forever.
After the spill, 99 percent of the workers were unionized white truckers, hired to clean up the city’s major tourist draws, but through sheer luck and persistence, Walker landed a contract to clean up distant Stinson Beach in Marin. He got the job none of the white truckers wanted nor did they want to take orders from a Black man. His smarts and tenacity rubbed a lot of “white folks” the wrong way, simply for being present.
Despite constant racial tensions, 5 Million Dollars and 30 Days later Charlie managed to clean up the coastline in record time to the States satisfaction. The oil company continued to harass Charlie all the way to criminal court. Charlie Walker is an 88 year old living legend that fought the system and won.
SOURCE: THE SOURCE
More on Mike’s film I’M CHARLIE WALKER.
‘I’m Charlie Walker’: Preview Of Mike Colter In Biopic Of Man Who Took On Big Oil
Mike Colter is taking on Big Oil in the biopic I’m Charlie Walker, coming to theaters, On Demand and Digital June 10. In the exclusive clip below, Colter addresses the racial power dynamics that work against him in the fight for recognition from the oil industry.
Colter plays the titular character, a man who completed a Herculean task in 1971–cleaning up a beach from a major oil spill all by himself. But the oil industry refused to give him his just due. According to the official description:
In the early morning of Jan. 18, 1971, two tankers owned by Standard Oil collided under the Golden Gate Bridge, spilling 800,000 gallons of oil spilled into the San Francisco Bay. It would be the largest oil spill in Bay Area history, and an event that changed Charlie’s life forever.
After the spill, 99 percent of the workers were unionized white truckers, hired to clean up the city’s major tourist draws, but through sheer luck and persistence, Walker landed a contract to clean up distant Stinson Beach in Marin. He got the job none of the white truckers wanted nor did they want to take orders from a Black man. His smarts and tenacity rubbed a lot of “white folks” the wrong way, for simply for being present.
Despite constant racial tensions, 5 million Dollars and 30 days later Charlie managed to clean up the coastline in record time to the States satisfaction. The oil company continued to harass Charlie all the way to criminal court. Charlie Walker is an 88 year old living legend that fought the system and won.
Along with Colter stars Dylan Baker, Safiya Fredericks, Carl Lumbly, Steven Wiig, Mark Leslie Ford, Greg Cipes, Emma Caulfield Ford and Monica Barbaro.
FAMM Films serves as producer with William O’Keeffe as executive producer. Charlie Walker and Mike Regen serve as producers with Mark Harris as associate producer.
SOURCE: YAHOO NEWS
We have a trailer for Mike’s film I’M CHARLIE WALKER. The film tells the true story of Charlie Walker, an entrepreneur who helps clean up a massive oil spill along the coast of California in 1971.
