Greengrass Goes Back To "Memphis"

Last year Universal Pictures passed on the Martin Luther King Jr. film Memphis to be directed by Paul Greengrass effectively leaving it in limbo.

Greengrass and producer Scott Rudin put the project aside because of financing and scheduling issues, opting instead for the Somali pirate heist feature "Captain Phillips" with Tom Hanks.
Now, Deadline reports that Wild Bunch is reportedly getting involved in the project which will be Greengrass' next directorial effort after the Phillips biopic wraps.

Chronicling the days leading up to Dr. King's assassination in Tennessee--April 1968, The film drops in as his marriage was crumbling, his vocal opposition to the Vietnam War had cost him his relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson, and his recent interests put him on the fringes of the rising Black Power movement.

Greengrass wrote "Memphis" based on his own original research.