Malcolm-Jamal Warner Acquires Film/TV Rights To Russell Duncan’s ‘Freedom’s Shore’, Will Star & Produce
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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Resident‘s Malcolm-Jamal Warner has acquired the film and television rights to Russell Duncan’s novel Freedom’s Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen.
Warner would produce and star in the project. A writer is not yet attached.Freedom’s Shore tells the incredible story of Tunis Campbell, a Northern abolitionist minister who became Senator and Vice President of the Republican Party of Georgia after the Civil War to help freed slaves transition to free men and women.“Tunis Campbell was a staunch defender of Human Rights and was one of the earliest activists in the fight against voter suppression in Georgia during the Reconstruction Era.” said Warner.
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