Jamie Foxx is also in early talks to star as MLK in the movie Stone and Foxx worked on the football pic Any Given Sunday
DreamWorks Studios acquired the life rights of the civil rights leader in May 2009 including access to King's intellectual property and the cooperation of the King estate
Warner Bros. had been working on its biopic for several years and had been in deep development on a script with Kario Salem, who had done almost four years worth of research and interviews when writing his screenplay.
The story would follow the famed civil rights activist from his rise all the way to his assassination in 1968.
Steven Spielberg, Suzanne De Passe, Madison Jones and Samuel Nappi are producing.
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