Regina King's directorial debut One Night in Miami has been added to the 2020 BFI London Film Festival, this year taking place mostly virtually as the event adapts to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Amazon film —which bowed in Venice (making it the first by a Black female director to screen at the festival) —is set to screen on Oct.
11. Based on Kemp Powers' award-winning play of the same name, One Night in Miami is a fictional account inspired by one night in 1964, when underdog boxer Cassius Clay, soon to be called Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), defeated heavyweight champion Sonny Liston at the Miami Convention Hall, and memorialized the event with three of his friends: Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) and Jim.
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