Who Killed Martin Luther King?
As the portal The Tracking Board was exclusively able to find out, Millennium Films offered Antoine Fuqua to lead the shooting of the dramatic thriller Orders to Kill , which tells about the conspiracy that led to the assassination of Martin Luther King.Fukua had previously negotiated with the studio to take the directorial chair of the biopic, but in 2012 Lee Daniels got the job, while Hugh Jackman was assigned the lead role at the time. The source now says that neither Daniels nor Jackman are no longer interested in working on the project. The film is curated by Mark Gill and Vincent Cheng. The biographical drama is based on the novel by William Pepper Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King , which was adapted by Hannah Wig. At the center of events is Pepper himself, a successful lawyer who quit his job to prove that the American government was involved in the murder of Martin Luther King . For 20 years, Pepper tried to acquit James Earl Ray, the man convicted of this murder, and to find irrefutable evidence that it was the government who ordered the removal of the prominent politician.  In 1999, Ray's innocence was tried in court. And although Pepper found about 70 witnesses who claim that the accused has become an ordinary scapegoat, and the real killer is a policeman from Memphis, the case never got a logical conclusion. Ray subsequently died in prison, and the conspiracy theory surrounding the murder of King remained unproven.  Fukua is known to audiences for such films as "Training Day", "The Fall of Olympus" and "The Great Equalizer", and now the director is busy filming a remake of "The Magnificent Seven". Antoine plans to work on several more biopics: one of them will tell about the creator of the famous Medellin drug cartel Max Mermelstein , and the second - about the Olympic champion Jesse Owens. The Topic of Article: Who Killed Martin Luther King?. |
