Selma is an American

congress Selma is an American drama film in 2014, directed by Ava DuVernay and written by DuVernay and Paul Webb. The film is based on the march for voting rights that happened Selma to Montgomery, February 1 led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC. David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King, Jr., Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon Johnson, Common as Bevel, and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King.

Pathé financed the film, and Plan B Entertainment and Harpo Productions co-produced the project. Paramount Pictures will distribute Selma in the United States and Canada.

Selma was released at an event American Film Institute's November 11, 2014, and will launch in the movies, in the United States on December 25, 2014. On June 18, 2008, Variety reported that screenwriter Paul Webb had written an original idea on Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson for Christian Colson Celador, which is co-produced by Brad Pitt Plan B Entertainment.26 In 2009 Lee Daniels would be he who would direct the film, financed by Pathé, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner Plan B as co-producers with the participation of Cloud Eight Films.27 In 2010, reports indicated that The Weinstein Company join Pathe and Plan B to finance the film with $ 22 million, 28 next month but Daniels had signed with Sony to rewrite and direct The Butler.29 In an interview in August 2010, Daniels said funding for the project was ready to Selma, but I had to choose between The Butler and Selma, and chose The Butler.30 In July 2013 it was announced that Ava DuVernay had signed on to direct Selma with Pathe UK and Plan B, and that she I was adjusting the script with the original writer, Paul Webb. In early 2014 Oprah Winfrey joined as producer along with Brad Pitt, 31 and 25 February Paramount Pictures was in final negotiations for Canadian distribution rights and EE.UU.32

on April 4, 2014, the director DuVernay Young announced that Bradford would be the cinematographer of the film. In 2010, Daniels confirmed the title role of David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr .. The actors had confirmed in 2010, but that did not appear in the production of 2014 include Robert De Niro, Hugh Jackman, Cedric the Entertainer, Lenny Kravitz, and Liam Neeson.3 34 35 36 37

On March 26, 2014, Tom Wilkinson was added to the cast to play US President Lyndon B. Johnson.4 The April 7, it was announced that Carmen Ejogo interpret the wife of Dr. King, Coretta Scott King.7 The April 15, actor and rapper Keith Stanfield joined to the cast to play a protester civil rights Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was shot dead in a night march and whose death was led by James Bevel to start March of Selma to Montgomery.15 The April 22, Lorraine Toussaint joined the cast to portray Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was very active in the Selma movement, came to SCLC and was the first African American woman to run for the Alabama congress.

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