Josh Lucas To Star In MLK-Era Political Thriller ‘Slay The Dreamer’ From Joshua Michael Stern
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Josh Lucas (Yellowstone) has signed on to star in Slay the Dreamer, a new film based on the life of Rev.
James Lawson, the civil rights activist who was friend and advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., from director Joshua Michael Stern (Jobs).
Lucas stars as a washed-up lawyer who in 1976, at Lawson’s request, takes on the case of Grace Walden, the only eyewitness to the man who shot King who had been involuntarily held in a mental institution outside Memphis since the assassination eight years earlier.
As the lawyer and his paralegal investigate Walden’s case, they uncover a conspiracy surrounding King’s assassination and risk their careers and lives to bring the truth to light.
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