Deadline is reporting that director Jose Padilha (Elite Squad, RoboCop, Narcos) has signed on to helm an adaptation of historian Kevin Boyle’s award-winning 2004 non-fiction book Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age.
Arc of Justice “tells the true story of a racial incident in 1925 Detroit that put African American doctor Ossian Sweet on the stand for murder. His defense was funded by the nascent NAACP and was led by legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow.”
Brazilian filmmaker Padilha has recently wrapped filming on Entebbe, which stars Rosamund Pike and Daniel Bruhl and explores the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane at Entebbe Airport in Uganda, and the Israeli commando raid to free them.
Originally published March 1, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
