{"id":65299,"date":"2025-08-07T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65299\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:42:17","slug":"new-movie-filmed-in-oklahoma-highlights-americas-youngest-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/65299\/","title":{"rendered":"New movie filmed in Oklahoma highlights America’s youngest millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

An upcoming film drama, “Sarah’s Oil,” tells the story of 11-year-old Sarah Rector, the nation’s youngest Black millionaire, who found her fortune after striking oil in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

With portions filmed in Okmulgee and Bristow, Naya Desir-Johnson stars as the titular Sarah as she fights to keep her inherited land in eastern Oklahoma. Zachary Levi stars alongside Desir-Johnson as Sarah’s business partner.<\/p>\n

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The film is co-produced by Kingdom Story Company, which previously produced and filmed “The Unbreakable Boy” in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: ‘The Unbreakable Boy’ premieres, bringing OU alum’s story to the big screen<\/a><\/p>\n

“Sarah’s Oil” hits theaters Nov. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An upcoming film drama, “Sarah’s Oil,” tells the story of 11-year-old Sarah Rector, the nation’s youngest Black millionaire,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,48108,206,48106,9600,48105,48107],"class_list":["post-65299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-kingdom-story-company","tag-movies","tag-naya-desir-johnson","tag-oklahoma","tag-sarah-rector","tag-zachary-levi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}