A feature biopic about the iconic civil rights activist Rosa Parks in coming to the big screen.
According to Deadline, the filmmakers, Winter State Entertainment, are fast-tracking the project as filming is set to begin in 2019.
Rosa was penned by Charlie Kessler and Hamid Toabpour and will focus on the 24-hour period following Parks’ unforgettable Montgomery, Alabama arrest on December 1, 1955.
“While most Americans have heard of Rosa Parks, the details of what happened that on the night she was arrested, and her lifetime of political courage and activism, are largely unknown,” said Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, and the consulting producer on the project. “The real story of Rosa Parks is far different, and even more inspiring and relevant for our times than the tale most children learn in school.”
“Rosa Parks is an inspiration, and our goal is to be able to use this project to raise awareness for the Rosa and Raymond Park Institute for Self Development. Ms. Parks did not have any children, so her institute is her legacy,” added Kessler.
There have been some projects in the past about Parks but not a feature biopic, the 2001 Academy Award-nominated documentary Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks, and the 2002 TV movie The Rosa Parks Story.
