Following his SAG nomination for actor in a drama series, Sterling K.
Brown is in negotiations to star in Fox Searchlight’s biopic “The Fence,” sources tell Variety.Peter Nicks is on board to direct.
George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane, who originally brought the book to HBO before it landed at Searchlight, teamed up to adapt the script.Based on the book by award-winning Boston Globe journalist Dick Lehr (“Black Mass”), “The Fence” follows the true story of Michael Cox, an African-American undercover cop who is mistaken for a suspect and brutally beaten by his own force following one of the largest police chases in Boston history.
As Cox seeks answers and justice for what happened, he finds himself on the other side of the “blue wall of silence” as the Boston Police Department aggressively covers it up.Jim Kohlberg and Luke Parker Bowles of Story Mining & Supply Co.
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