You may recall that a couple of years back, Lee Daniels was debating between two civil-rights themed projects. He ultimately settled on the White House drama The Butler, which opens next month. But the other, Selma, hasn't been forgotten entirely -- it's just in new hands now. Ava DuVernay, the rising star behind last year's Sundance…
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Having won an Oscar for portraying one historical leader, Forest Whitaker is preparing to tackle another. Only while The Last King of Scotland's Idi Amin was a ruthless dictator, Memphis' Martin Luther King Jr. was, well, Martin Luther King Jr. Paul Greengrass is directing the Scott Rudin-produced film, which is now going the indie route…
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DreamWorks has acquired the rights to make a feature film based on the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. "In trying to tackle such an ambitious project, the question we had to ask ourselves is, 'Why now?' " DreamWorks CEO and co-chairman Stacey Snider told Variety . "The answer lies in MLK's own…
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