Never Die Alone
- Release Date
- March 26, 2004
- Director
- Ernest R. Dickerson
- Cast
- DMX , Michael Ealy , Drew Sidora , Antwon Tanner , Robby Robinson , Luenell
- Runtime
- 82
- Main Genre
- Action
- Writers
- Donald Goines , James Gibson
- Tagline
- No King Rules Forever
Summary
Based on legendary street novelist Donald Goines’ book of the same name, NEVER DIE ALONE is a richly literate film noir about King David (DMX), a hard-boiled, stylish criminal who returns to his hometown seeking redemption and finding only violent death. But he did not die alone... King David’s final moments are spent with Paul (David Arquette), an aspiring journalist who knows him for just a few minutes but is changed forever by their meeting. King David – half preacher, half Satan, and all street smarts – gives to Paul an audiotape featuring the story of his recent exploits, leaving behind a riveting, poetic sermon on villainy and its consequences. The tapes reveal that the cycle of violence and retribution King David’s actions spawned have come back on him full circle, as he suspected they might all along... The acclaimed novel Never Die Alone was penned in 1974 by the late African American cult writer Donald Goines shortly before his death, and was adapted for the screen by James Gibson. One of the most widely acclaimed black authors of his generation, Goines wrote his first two books while incarcerated, and followed those with an astonishing 16 novels written from the time he was released from prison in 1970 until he was shot to death in 1974. Goines sold more than 5 million books in his brief career and has, in the past decade, been re-discovered by legions of hip-hop fans. He has been called the greatest black American urban novelist since Chester Himes and the French magazine L’Express called him “a flashing talent straight from the street of the lost.”
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