Chris Rock is set to direct a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic. The 58-year-old comedian and actor is in final talks to helm and produce the new movie about the celebrated civil rights campaigner that also has Steven Spielberg involved as an executive producer. Universal Pictures is backing the picture after optioning the rights to Jonathan Eig's biography King: A.
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Universal has acquired the movie rights for King: A Life, a bestselling new biography by Jonathan Eig, whose aim was to recover the real man from the grey mist of hagiography.