Star Wars star John
Boyega has landed a role in Kathryn Bigelow's yet untitled Detroit crime drama
based on real events.
The project marks
Bigelow's return to feature filmmaking after Zero Dark Thirty in 2012, which
the director followed with a short in 2014 titled Last Days.
Annapurna Pictures is
financing the film, which counts with a script written by Bigelow's frequent
collaborator Mark Boal.
Plot details are
unknown at this point, but what we do known is that the project will be set
against the backdrop of one of the most violent, deadly, and destructive riots
in American history, where hundreds lost their lives (mostly civilians) and
well over a thousand were wounded (mostly civilians).
What came to be known
as the 12th Street riots was a violent 5-day confrontation in 1967's Detroit, between
local community members (mostly African-Americans) and the Detroit Police
Department, Michigan State Police, Michigan Nation Guard, and the 82nd and 101st
Airborne Divisions (mostly White).
Bigelow and Boal will
try to dig deep into the systemic racism in the city.
There isn't a distributor
yet in place, but Bigelow is aiming to release the film in 2017, just in time for
the 50th anniversary of the riots.
Boyega is currently
filming Star Wars: Episode VIII, and he recently got the lead role in Pacific
Rim 2, which he will co-produce.
Source - THR
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