The comedian and filmmaker is making a movie on the civil rights leader.
is reportedly in talks to direct a biopic about the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The film would be based on the 2023 biography, Here is the official synopsis of Eig’s Martin Luther King Jr. biography: is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.
King has been the subject of several films in the past; the most recent major fictional work about him was 2014’s , which became a breakthrough hit for director Ava DuVernay and starred David Oyelowo as King. In 2020, a documentary called documented the previously classified history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of King. Rock’s film has yet to cast an actor to play King.
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