Paul Greengrass Confirmed To Write & Direct His Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Drama ‘Memphis’

Deadline have confirmed that writer/director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, United 93) will make his next film ‘Memphis’ about the events that lead up to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. 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.

Universal Pictures will make Memphis, the drama about the assassination of Martin Luther King written and directed by Paul Greengrass. The picture is being produced by Scott Rudin, the Oscar-nominated producer of Best Picture candidates The Social Network and True Grit. Production on the film is slated to begin in June. It reunites the studio with Greengrass, who last made The Green Zone for Uni and who withdrew from making a fourth installment of The Bourne Identity. Even though that last picture came in at a high budget and didn’t succeed at the box office, Greengrass turned in two hit Bourne sequels and the Oscar-nominated United 93.

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