Chris Rock groups up with Steven Spielberg for brand spanking new Martin Luther King Jr. biopic

Chris Rock has reportedly teamed up with director Steven Spielberg for a brand new Martin Luther King Jr. biopic.

In accordance with Selection, Rock is in closing negotiations to direct and produce an adaptation of writer Jonathan Eig’s biography King: A Life, whereas Spielberg will govt produce the challenge. Common Footage are regarded as on board for the movie.

King grew to become a number one voice of the civil rights motion within the ’60s earlier than his assassination in 1968. Actors who’ve lately performed King on sreen embody David Oyelowo within the 2014 Oscar-nominated historic drama Selma and Anthony Mackie in 2016’s All of the Manner.

An official synopsis of the e book from Macmillan reads: “Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the primary main biography in a long time of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the primary to incorporate lately declassified FBI recordsdata.

“On this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer provides us an intimate view of the brave and sometimes emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceable protest for his motion however was not often at peace with himself. He casts recent mild on the King household’s origins in addition to MLK’s advanced relationships together with his spouse, father, and fellow activists.

“…On this landmark biography, Eig provides us an MLK for our instances: a deep thinker, a superb strategist, and a dedicated radical who led one in every of historical past’s best actions, and whose calls for for racial and financial justice stay as pressing in the present day as they have been in his lifetime.

Rock has beforehand directed 2014’s High 5, 2007’s I Suppose I Love My Spouse and 2003’s Head of State. Later this 12 months, he’ll be seen in George C. Wolfe’s Rustin on Netflix, which additionally includes a portrayal of Martin Luther King Jr.

The movie is concerning the Bayard Rustin, the architect of 1963’s momentous March on Washington.

A synopsis of that claims “Rustin shines a protracted overdue highlight on the extraordinary man who, alongside giants just like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Ella Baker, dared to think about a special world, and impressed a motion in a march towards freedom.”