Berlinger is directing from a screenplay by Donald Freed and Mark Lane. It follows Lawson’s efforts to reopen the investigation of King’s murder. Lawson, who was instrumental in the Sanitation Workers’ Strike in Memphis, Lawson invited King to the city to speak to the workers the night before his assassination.
In 1976, Lawson discovered that Grace Walden, the only eyewitness to the man who shot King, had been involuntarily held in a mental institution outside Memphis since the assassination eight years earlier. Walden was held under a fake name after turning down a $100,000 reward from the FBI and refusing to sign an affidavit stating that James Earl Ray was the man she saw the day of the assassination.
Oakhurst founders Jai Khanna and Marina Grasic are producing the project with Elizabeth Fowler, Harold Perrineau as well as Berlinger. They are aiming for a Spring 2020 production start date.
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