STEVEN SPIELBERG TO PRODUCE MARTIN LUTHER KING BIOPIC

May 19, 2009

Via Digital Spy Steven Spielberg has signed up to co-produce a Martin Luther King biopic for DreamWorks, according to Variety. The civil rights leader, who was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 39, copyrighted his speeches, books and works. DreamWorks’s project marks the first time that Dr King’s estate have allowed producers to use his intellectual property, such as his famous 1963 ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. “We are all honoured that the King estate is giving us the opportunity to […]