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Chadwick Boseman will star as attorney Thurgood Marshall in courtroom thriller “Marshall”.
Reginald Hudlin is directing from a script yb renowned trial lawyer, Michael Koskoff, and his son, screenwriter Jacob Koskoff.
Production will kick off in LA this week.
“Marshall” is based on a true incident in the life of Thurgood Marshall, when he was a young lawyer, long before his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. As the nation teeters on the brink of WWII, a nearly bankrupt NAACP sends Marshall to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur against his wealthy socialite employer in a sexual assault and attempted murder trial that quickly became tabloid fodder. In need of a high profile victory but muzzled by a segregationist court, Marshall is partnered with Samuel Friedman, a young Jewish lawyer who has never tried a case. Marshall and Friedman struggle against a hostile storm of fear and prejudice, driven to discover the truth in the sensationalized trial which helped set the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement to come.
