Deon Taylor (Fatale) will direct a new biopic, Freedom Ride, about the late Georgia Congressman John Lewis and his leadership of the 1961 Freedom Riders, according to TheWrap.
INDE Companies’ Kim Leadford and Mark R. Harris, The Hideaway Entertainment’s Matthew Rhodes, and Hidden Empire Film Group’s Roxanne Avent Taylor will produce.
Taylor will executive produce via his Hidden Empire Film Group along with his partner Robert F. Smith, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, and Vosburgh.
The Freedom Riders were a group of protesters who challenged the non-enforcement of Supreme Court rulings that found segregated public buses to be unconstitutional.