Paul Greengrass To Write & Direct A Dr Martin Luther King Jr Film Entitled ‘Memphis’

Vulture have reported that Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, United 93) is planning to make his next film about the events that lead up to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. According to the article Greengrass has already wrote the script – entitled ‘Memphis,‘ the film is said to centre on the final days of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in the springtime of 1968, when he was attempting to help the city’s sanitation workers find common ground, just before his murder on April 4th of that year.

‘Insiders tell us that Greengrass wrote the movie — titled simply Memphis — based on his own original research, and that it looks at King’s life while trying to organize the city’s sanitation workers in spring of 1968, just before his murder on April 4 of that year. If so, that’d make for a much more human portrayal of King than some might expect: By the spring of 1968, King’s personal and professional lives were in disarray: His marriage was faltering; he was chain-smoking, boozing, and packing on the pounds. King’s outspokenness on the Vietnam War cost him his relationship with President Johnson, and his newfound interest in labor organization and the urban poor put him on the fringes of the rising Black Power movement.’

Sounds incredibly intriguing, a film to definitely to look out for. I’m a Paul Greengrass fan and a massive Martin Luther King buff so for me this film seems like it has a strong possibilty of being a good’en!