Deadline has revealed details the latest project from Mud and Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols, which is set for release in 2016.
The acclaimed director is to direct Loving, a new drama that Nichols has written himself, and is set to start filming in September. Joel Edgerton (Exodus: Gods and Kings) and Ruth Negga (World War Z) will star in the film as Mildred and Richard Loving, the famous couple behind a civil rights case against Virginia in 1967.
On the project, Nichols is quoted as saying: “I was struck by the simplicity of The Loving Story, and I hope to make this a painfully beautiful film.”
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