Paramount In Talks For George Tillman Jr-Helmed Black Panthers Pic ‘Power To The People’; Script By ‘Harriet’s Gregory Allen Howard
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Director George Tillman, Jr and writer Gregory Allen
Paramount is in talks to acquire Power to the People, a package that has George Tillman Jr committed to direct a period drama about the formation of the Black Panthers. Script is by Gregory Allen, who scripted the recent release Harriet about Harriet Tubman and the formation of the Underground Railroad, and Remember the Titans.
The film tells the story of the revolutionary relationship of Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who founded the Black Panthers originally to protest police brutality against African Americans. It became a global movement and an important part of the civil rights movement. That put them in the crosshairs of FBI leader J Edgar Hoover and the U.S. government, which considered them a radical movement and deemed them the single greatest threat to the nation’s security. Pic is based on the Stanley Nelson-directed documentary Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.
Tillman Jr, who last directed The Hate U Give, will produce with Ben Affleck. Madison Ainsley is exec producer and Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is associate producer. Nelson is expected to be involved in a producing capacity and Paramount’s Bryan Oh will steer the project.
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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Paramount In Talks For George Tillman Jr-Helmed Black Panthers Pic ‘Power To The People’; Script By ‘Harriet’s Gregory Allen Howard
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount is in talks to acquire Power to the People, a package that has George Tillman Jr committed to direct a period drama about the formation of the Black Panthers. Script is by Greg…
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Director George Tillman, Jr and writer Gregory Allen
Paramount is in talks to acquire Power to the People, a package that has George Tillman Jr committed to direct a period drama about the formation of the Black Panthers. Script is by Gregory Allen, who scripted the recent release Harriet about Harriet Tubman and the formation of the Underground Railroad, and Remember the Titans.
The film tells the story of the revolutionary relationship of Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who founded the Black Panthers originally to protest police brutality against African Americans. It became a global movement and an important part of the civil rights movement. That put them in the crosshairs of FBI leader J Edgar Hoover and the U.S. government, which considered them a radical movement and deemed them the single greatest threat to the nation’s security. Pic is based on the Stanley Nelson-directed documentary Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.
Tillman Jr, who last directed The Hate U Give, will produce with Ben Affleck. Madison Ainsley is exec producer and Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni is associate producer. Nelson is expected to be involved in a producing capacity and Paramount’s Bryan Oh will steer the project.
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
