Chris Rock to Direct Martin Luther King Jr. Biopic, Steven Spielberg to Executive Produce
(This is quite a choice. Also a good time to remind you that MLK/FBI is a brilliant documentary that you should see if you haven't already)
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.@MLKFBI is the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly discovered and declassified files.
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Check it out. Directed by Sam Pollard, who also did, Bill Russell, Legend. Terrific film, uses lots of real footage of MLK, Hoover, Johnson, Kennedys, others, plus interviews of his contemporaries, amidst a backdrop of 1960s US footage and old Hollywood FBI movies. Terrific work.
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MLK/FBI
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“My responsibility was to say, ‘I love and admire Dr. King, but he’s human.’”
Filmmaker Sam Pollard joined @USCAnnenberg professor @mikiturner and @USCVandV to discuss his documentary "MLK/FBI," a humanizing portrait of the late Dr. King.
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Interview: "MLK/FBI" a terrific archival documentary, gathering numerous materials, including reams of direct transcripts of internal FBI communications about King, to tell its story. Director Sam Pollard discussed how his crew assembled their narrative ow.ly/JpMK50MwYZ9