Searchlight Pictures has snapped up E. Nicholas Mariani’s 2018 Black List script The Defender which George Tillman Jr. will direct with 3x Emmy winning actor Sterling K. Brown to star as heroic lawyer Scipio Africanus Jones. Jones was a courageous attorney who, in the wake of the Elaine, Arkansas Massacre of 1919, risked his life and career to defend 87 men wrongfully accused of murder.
Read more at Deadline: Searchlight Acquires Black List Script ‘The Defender’; Sterling K. Brown To Star, George Tillman Jr. To Direct
