The Big Cigar
As of April 28, 2026, The Big Cigar is a series that has completed production. The production companies attached are Epic, Folding Chair Productions and Warner Bros. Studio. Attached are casting director Leah Daniels-Butler; director Don Cheadle; writer Jim Hecht; producers Joshua Davis, Arthur Spector and 2 others; and line producer Dan Kaplow. Cast includes André Holland". It was scheduled to shoot in Toronto, ON from June 2022 to September 2022. Production List last updated this listing on April 28, 2026.
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Project Summary
How Bert Schneider, a well-heeled Hollywood producer with a coke problem and a soft spot for radical politics, smuggled Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers who was awaiting trial on a murder charge, into Cuba in 1974. Schneider, set up a movie built around Newton called The Cigar. He never intended to make the movie, but it provided Newton the cover he needed to get himself and his girlfriend at the time out of the country.
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Cast & Crew
Directing
| Director | Don Cheadle |
| 1st AD | Nicole Burke |
Production
| Line Producer | Dan Kaplow |
| Producer | Joshua Davis |
| Producer | Arthur Spector |
| Producer | Janine Sherman Barrois |
| Producer | Joshuah Bearman |
Writing
| Writer | Jim Hecht |
Cast
| Cast | André Holland" |
Casting
| Casting Director | Leah Daniels-Butler |
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