KARACHI: Hugh Jackman and Lee Daniels are working on an as-yet-untitled movie about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
The pair previously tried to pull together funding for civil rights movie ‘Selma’ two years ago, but following on from its failure they have set their attention on a project about the valued campaigner.
Millennium Films will produce and finance the film, although, a distributor has not been confirmed.
The movie will tell the tale of William Pepper, played by Jackman, the lawyer who has argued for decades that, on 4 April 1968, the US civil rights activist was murdered by unseen forces.
The man convicted of shooting King was James Earl Ray, an advocate of non-violent protest;
Ray renounced his confession and died protesting his innocence.
The film is adapted by screenwriter Hanna Weg from Pepper’s 1995 book Orders to Kill: The
Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King.
Hugh was last seen in robot fighting movie 'Real Steel' and has been filming a number of projects recently.
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