Oliver Stone Leaves Martin Luther King Jr. Biopic

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Oliver Stone and Jamie Foxx were attached to a Martin Luther King biopic last fall. Apparently Stone is already off the project, with no word from Foxx’s involvement so far.

“Sad news,” Stone Tweeted out. “My MLK project involvement has ended. I did an extensive rewrite of the script, but the producers won’t go with it. The script dealt w/ issues of adultery, conflicts within the movement, and King’s spiritual transformation into a higher, more radical being. I’m told the estate & the ‘respectable’ black community that guard King’s reputation won’t approve it. They suffocate the man & the truth. I wish you could see the film I would’ve made. I fear if ‘they’ ever make it, it’ll be just another commemoration of the March on Washington. Martin, I grieve for you. You are still a great inspiration for your fellow Americans—but, thank God, not a saint.”