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EXCLUSIVE: AsAnthony Mackiethis week reprises the role of the winged Falcon inCaptain America: Civil War,he’s signed on to star in a movie about the case that made a legal superhero out of Johnnie Cochran. And this one didn’t involve OJ Simpson. Mackie is set to play Cochran in an untitled film about his dogged pursuit of justice in theSignal Hill police brutality casein 1981. The script is byDavid McMillan, who was among last year’s Fox Writers Intensive finalists and recently was a staff writer onLucifer.
The film is being backed by The Firm, and Mackie and Jason Spire will produce with Robbie Brenner, The Firm’s president of film whom they first worked with on the Frank E. Flowers-directedHaven. Kevin McKeon will also produce and Jeff Kwatinetz will be exec producer along with McMillan.
The legacy ofCochranwas elevated with the FX seriesThe People V O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story;this feature has its own timely context.
While Cochran would go on to represent celebrities from Simpson to Michael Jackson and Jim Brown, his rise to fame as an advocate for blacks suffering in police brutality cases was galvanized by his work in the landmark Signal Hill case. He represented a football player, Cal State Long Beach star Ron Settles, who had been picked up for speeding in Signal Hill, in Los Angeles County. Shortly after his arrest, he was found hanged in his cell. The police called it a suicide, but an autopsy — performed after Cochran persuaded Settles’ family to exhume the body — showed that he had been choked to death. The family was awarded $760,000 in a civil suit, the police chief resigned, and reforms were mandated. Cochran died in 2005.
http://deadline.com/2016/05/anthony-...ar-1201747606/
The film is being backed by The Firm, and Mackie and Jason Spire will produce with Robbie Brenner, The Firm’s president of film whom they first worked with on the Frank E. Flowers-directedHaven. Kevin McKeon will also produce and Jeff Kwatinetz will be exec producer along with McMillan.
The legacy ofCochranwas elevated with the FX seriesThe People V O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story;this feature has its own timely context.
While Cochran would go on to represent celebrities from Simpson to Michael Jackson and Jim Brown, his rise to fame as an advocate for blacks suffering in police brutality cases was galvanized by his work in the landmark Signal Hill case. He represented a football player, Cal State Long Beach star Ron Settles, who had been picked up for speeding in Signal Hill, in Los Angeles County. Shortly after his arrest, he was found hanged in his cell. The police called it a suicide, but an autopsy — performed after Cochran persuaded Settles’ family to exhume the body — showed that he had been choked to death. The family was awarded $760,000 in a civil suit, the police chief resigned, and reforms were mandated. Cochran died in 2005.
http://deadline.com/2016/05/anthony-...ar-1201747606/
Courtney B. Vance or Bust.
at the dude saying courtney, so he's just going to play cochran in everything now? Most actors play a role compartmentalize it and challenge themselves with another part. After toiling for decades he's got the most recognition he's ever had just off American crime story and you really think he wants to play that role again? Smh