Various media reported that Chris Rock will be the director of the biopic of Martin Luther King Jr., and Steven Spielberg will also work as executive producer of the project. Supervising the film will be Ryan Jones, who is Senior Vice President of Production Development at Universal Pictures. Amblin Partners and Kristie Macosko Krieger will produce. The film is an analysis of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., making use of unpublished and significant sources, such as data that the FBI previously classified.
Who was Martin Luther King?
Martin Luther King Jr., whose original name was Michael King Jr., was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, and died on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was an American Baptist leader and activist who was noted as the leading spokesman for the civil rights movement from 1955 until his tragic assassination in 1968. He was the leader of an African-American church and the son of prominent civil rights activist and pastor Martin Luther King Sr.
King Jr. led the fight for civil rights for African Americans and was also active in protests against the Vietnam War and poverty in general. His commitment to ending racial segregation and discrimination in the United States through peaceful methods earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Four years later, while focusing especially on opposing war and fighting against poverty, he was tragically murdered in Memphis, where he was preparing for a dinner with friends.
It will certainly be interesting to see what new information about the life of this great man is provided by the script of this biopic that promises to be fresh, solemn, and well done like what Rock, and of course the great Spielberg, does.
This story was written in Spanish by Carmen Guerrero in Cultura Colectiva
