Nate Parker has come on board as director of LAPD detective drama “Black & Blue” in his first helming project since “The Birth of a Nation.”“Black & Blue” is based on the life of unsung Lapd detective Ralph Waddy, who died last year.
Parker is rewriting Jim McGrath’s script.M.B Entertainment’s Steven Jensen has optioned Waddy’s life rights.
Jensen will produce along with Darren Enenstein, Shondrella Avery, Adam R.
Sanders, and Lenny Rosenberg.
Avery will also act in the film.
The producers plan to begin filming in July in Los Angeles.During his tenure at the Los Angeles Police Department, Waddy was involved in the capture of Charles Manson and his followers who were convicted in the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and seven others, and “Skid Row Slasher” Vaughn Orrin Greenwood was convicted of slashing the throats of nine transients in 1974 and 1975.Waddy’s Lapd tenure also covered the 1965 Watts riots,
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