The last we heard from Oliver
Stone’s Martin Luther King biopic it was painfully and extremely slowly moving
forward with the director in talks with Jamie Foxx to join productions. The project
was going to delve into some of the Civil Rights leader less than inspiring “issues
of adultery, conflicts within the movement, and King’s spiritual transformation
into a higher, more radical being.”
Today the director announced that
he will be departing from the project due to creative differences (go figure). It
seems that the project producers agreed with the King estate and thought the
script needed a re-write. But Stone isn’t the only one having problems with the
King estate, Paul Greengrass’ Memphis and Lee Daniels’ Selma are also having
their share of issues, but don’t despair because DreamWorks and Warner Bros.
are looking to align a writer/director’s vision with the one of the estate.
Stone himself broke the news that
he was leaving the project.
Oliver Stone @TheOliverStone
Sad news. My MLK project
involvement has ended. I did an extensive rewrite of the script, but the
producers won’t go with it.
The script dealt w/ issues of
adultery, conflicts within the movement, and King’s spiritual transformation
into a higher, more radical being
I’m told the estate & the
‘respectable’ black community that guard King’s reputation won’t approve it.
They suffocate the man & the truth.
I wish you could see the film I
would’ve made. I fear if ‘they’ ever make it, it’ll be just another
commemoration of the March on Washington
Martin, I grieve for you. You are
still a great inspiration for your fellow Americans—but, thank God, not a
saint.
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