MLK's Family Fights To Stop Spielberg's Biopic
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Wed May 20, 09 04:11 PM
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Earlier this week we told you about Steven Spielberg’s plan to turn Martin Luther King Jr’s life into a biopic. Unfortunately it seems that Cinema Blend’s Mack Rawden isn’t the only person who thinks this is a pretty terrible idea. MLK’s family has come out against Spielberg's film and according to Variety they're willing to sue to stop him.
So here’s why they’re pissed. Spielberg gained access to the King estate through MLK’s brother Dexter King, chairman and CEO of the King Estate But King’s children Bernice King and Martin Luther King III have been embroiled with Dexter over who controls the papers of their late mother Coretta Scott King and so their bitterness over the whole mess seems to have spilled over onto Spielberg by association. Bernice King tells the AP: “They don't have the blessings of Bernice and Martin King.”
Bernice and Martin III are threatening legal action to stop Spielberg and DreamWorks from making his movie. DreamWorks on the other hand, insists this will have no effect on their project.
