Oliver Stone, Jamie Foxx poised to team up for Martin Luther King bioOctober 11, 2013 - 11:14 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Oliver Stone might be wading back into the political arena for his next movie project -- and could bring Jamie Foxx with him, The Hollywood Reporter said. Stone, who has tackled hot-button biopics with JFK, Nixon and W., is in talks to direct the untitled Martin Luther King Jr. project being made as a co-production by DreamWorks and Warner Bros. Foxx is in talks to star as the civil rights leader. The project is working off a current script by Kario Salem. Ronald Harwood wrote a previous draft. Steven Spielberg, Suzanne de Passe, Madison Jones and Sam Nappi are producing. Members of King’s family are involved as executive producers. Neither Stone nor Foxx have offers at this stage, but meetings have taken place. The two are keen on doing it, but reservations abound. Stone is one of Hollywood’s most polarizing figures, who loves stirring up the sand not just by being outspoken on issues, but also by tackling political or social material using a strong point of view. He took on Vietnam twice in the 1980s with Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, violence in Natural Born Killers, and capitalism with Wall Street. But it’s his biopics that rattle the right and left (let’s face it; it’s mostly the right), as well as historians, who question his accuracy and tendency to insert more controversial and outlying ideas into his well-crafted and well-cast pieces. Related links: Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. |