The story deals with Martin Luther King Jr‘s historic voting rights campaign that occurred at the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
DuVernay has been scouting locations and tweaking the script with screenwriter Paul Webb since April.
Christian Colson will produce the film.
At one time Lee Daniels was attached to direct the project a few years ago with David Oyelowo, Hugh Jackman, Liam Neeson, Ray Winstone, Robert De Niro and Cedric the Entertainer poised to star. Funding was never fully secured and that version of movie just fell apart.
Oyelowo is the only name that is still attached to the fresh incarnation
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