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Avengers star fires up East Texas film

Samuel L.Jackson in "The Avengers"

Samuel L. Jackson will executive produce a film adaptation of Eugene Lee’s Pulitzer-nominated play “East Texas Hot Links”, says Deadline.

Lee will direct the film with Night Fox Entertainment financing.

East Texas Hot Links is the story of how a single night at a “colored only” bar in Jim Crow era East Texas tests the strength and loyalty of a small African-American community and changes their lives.

John Beasley (”The Soul Man”) is set to play the the role of Boochie Reed.

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