Chronicling the days leading up to Dr. King's assassination in Tennessee--April 1968, The film drops in as his marriage was crumbling, his vocal opposition to the Vietnam War had cost him his relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson, and his recent interests put him on the fringes of the rising Black Power movement.
Greengrass wrote "Memphis" based on his own original research. He reportedly intends to film the movie in his familiar "documentary-style" like he did for "United 93" and this year's Somali pirate drama "Captain Phillips" with Tom Hanks.
The project is looking likely to be Greengrass' next movie which Scott Rudin will produce.
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