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Antoine Fuqua & Will Smith Runaway Slave Thriller ‘Emancipation’ To Be Introduced At Virtual Cannes Market; Based On Indelible ‘Scourged Back’ Photo

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Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: In what I believe will become one of the hottest film packages for the upcoming Virtual Cannes Market, Antoine Fuqua will direct Will Smith in Emancipation, a Willam N.

Collage-scripted action thriller about the harrowing escape of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey North.

There he joined the Union Army.The thriller is based on a true story, fueled by an indelible image; when Peter showed his bare back during an Army medical examination, photos were taken of the scars from a whipping delivered by an overseer on the plantation owned by John and Bridget Lyons that nearly killed the slave.

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