Supremacy is a 2014 American drama thriller film directed by Deon Taylor, written by Eric J. Adams, and starring Joe Anderson, Dawn Olivieri and Danny Glover.
The film chronicles the real life events of March 29–30, 1995, perpetrated by Aryan Brotherhood members Robert Walter Scully Jr. and Brenda Kay Moore.
After fatally shooting a police officer, neo-Nazi Garrett Tully, along with his companion, Doreen Lesser, breaks into a house and takes an African-American family hostage.
Recently paroled after serving a fifteen-year prison sentence, Garrett Tully meets Doreen Lesser to complete a drug errand for their incarcerated Aryan Brotherhood boss, Paul Sobecki.
Believed to be pondering a nearby business to rob, they were confronted at approximately 11:30 PM by Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff Frank Vasquez Trejo.
[9] After "floating around [for many years] as an independent filmmaker", Deon Taylor began looking for a "more serious project" to direct;[2] one that would take him "out of the [horror] genre".
[13] On March 7, it was reported by Deadline that Anson Mount had signed on to portray Sobecki, the "nasty villain" and "head of the Aryan Brotherhood".
Mount signed on for the role while taking a break from starring as Cullen Bohannon in Hell on Wheels, a western television series.
Reportedly expensive, Taylor had to consult "all of the producers" beforehand, and although he didn't "have enough money" to use 16 mm film as much as he wanted, he did have enough to shoot "one or two takes" of each scene and "move on".
[2] The worldwide premiere took place at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 12, 2014;[16] Deputy Trejo's family members were in attendance.
[20] Drew Hunt, of Slant Magazine, awarded one out of four stars, he wrote: "Taylor completely fails to visually represent any sort of interpersonal human dynamic", and "[It] isn't long before we feel like hostages ourselves, bound by the filmmakers' strained moral outrage".
He praised Eric J. Adams for upping "the ante by creating dissent among the hostages", and was equally complimentary of Taylor, who "impressively paces the film with unrelenting tension".