Black Beauty stars Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jordan and Oscar Isaac in a film that is set in the 1970s and will feature former members from the Black Panthers and the U.S. military as a supporting cast.
The film, directed by Josh Weinstein, will be written by Black Beauty director Josh Weinstein and stars the Black Beauty’s Black Panther characters from the book by Angela Davis, the legendary activist who died in 2016 at age 93.
The book was released in 1976 and is considered a cultural landmark for the civil rights movement.
It was adapted into a Broadway musical in 1993 and the 2010 movie starring Jennifer Garner, which was directed by James Ivory, became a box office smash and earned more than $600 million worldwide.