LOS ANGELES, March 22 — Star Wars Rogue One actor Forest Whitaker has signed on to join the team behind the as-yet-untitled Angela Davis biopic movie project as an executive producer.
As Variety reports, Lionsgate’s Codeblack acquired the movie rights last year to Angela Davis: An Autobiography and set up the project with Nina Yang Bongiovi, whose credits include Fruitvale Station, which Whitaker also produced, and Dope.
Sidra Smith, a producer on the 2012 documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, and Codeblack Enterprises CEO Jeff Clanagan are also on board and will serve as producers on the project.
Whitaker’s previous producing credits include the Katie Holmes-starring romantic comedy First Daughter, which he both directed and executive produced, as well as the 2002 Emmy-award-winning TV movie Door to Door, starring William H. Macy, and Fruitvale Station, which he produced with Bongiovi and which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for US dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. — AFP-Relaxnews
