Showtime Documentary Films on Monday unveiled plans for the feature documentary Attica, about the 1971 prison rebellion in upstate New York, by director Stanley Nelson (The Murder of Emmett Till).
The movie will debut on Showtime in 2021, the 50th anniversary of the five-day confrontation between prisoners and guards called a riot by some and a rebellion by others.
The uprising inspired Al Pacino's famous chant of "Attica! Attica!" in Dog Day Afternoon. Nelson's documentary will chronicle the five-day event that turned deadly when armed state troopers stormed the prison facility, leaving 43 people dead and hundreds injured. "Attica is a film I've been itching to make for a very long time.
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