Taylor Hackford (The Comedian) is set to direct the upcoming film Signal Hill, according to Deadline.
Ron Settles was a 21-year-old African American running back at California State University when he was arrested for speeding by California’s Signal Hill Police Department.
Although the police claimed Settles’ death was a suicide, evidence to the contrary led to a civil suit against the Signal Hill PD.
When Cochran was hired for the trial, he was already famous and one of his big cases was fighting for justice in the Signal Hill police brutality case concerning the death of Ron Settles in 1981.