CASTING CORNER
Don Cheadle will star and “Training Day’s” Antoine Fuqua will direct the crime thriller spec titled “Brooklyn’s Finest” from first time screenwriter Michael Martin.
Living in Brooklyn, Michael Martin had just totaled his car in an accident. While in physical therapy, he entered a screenwriting competition, hoping to win the prize money for his new set of wheels.
“I had never written a screenplay before,” said Martin, who had studied film in college. “I thought, ‘How hard can it be?’ I was more like, ‘If I win this, I can get a new car.’ ”
Jeb Stuart will direct “The Great Debaters” star Nate Parker in “Blood Done Sign My Name.”
The film will be based on the true story of a black Vietnam veteran allegedly murdered by a white businessman and a young teacher’s role in the civil unrest that followed.
Parker will play a teacher who emerged as a leader after an Oxford, N.C., businessman was exonerated in the 1970 killing.