Anthony Mackie and Priyanka Chopra Jonas board assassin flick
msn.comGallery: Everyone knows the bad guys have all the fun! Did you know these stars have played supervillains? (BANG Showbiz)The '8 Mile' star has recruited 'King Richard' actress Saniyya Sidney to play Claudette Colvin, an unsung hero of the Civil Rights era.
Colvin was just 15 when she bravely stood up to racism as she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a crowded segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
The incident occurred nine months before Rosa Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights movement for doing the same thing. Colvin was initially embraced by Civil Rights leaders for her courage, but was brushed out of history when those same leaders decided a poor, dark-skinned teenage girl wasn't the ideal face for their public campaign.
Anthony is producing the movie with Kellon Akeem, Jason Michael Berman and Marc Ambrose while Niceole R. Levy has written the script.
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