Steve McQueen Pointing 12 Years A Slave

Chiwetel Ejiofor will starNever a guy to be put off by difficult subjects, Hunger director Steve McQueen has become set to tackle a questionable and poignant true story with 12 Years a Slave, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. Based on Variety, McQueen continues to be developing the project individually distinct for some time now and co-authored the script with Red-colored Tails scribe John Ridley. The film will unspool the actual-existence tale of Solomon Northrup (Ejiofor), a brand new You are able to resident who had been kidnapped in Washington in 1841. He was delivered to a cotton plantation in Louisiana and resided like a slave for over a decade before being saved in 1853. Kaira Pitt's Plan B company is creating the film, and McQueen has become searching to place financing in position so he is able to start shooting early the coming year. His latest effort, sex addiction drama Shame (which reunites him with Hunger's Michael Fassbender), has become complete and can have its premiere in the Venice Film Festival the following month. Ejiofor, last observed in 2012 and Salt, will curently have performed a slave before he reviews towards the 12 Years set, because he seems in Annette Haywood-Carter's Savannah. The film follows the friendship between artist Ward Allen (Jim Caviezel) and freed slave Christmas Moultrie (Ejiofor). That certain should arrive sometime the coming year.