Nearly a decade after passing on the title role in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Will Smith has signed on to play a runaway slave in Antoine Fuqua’s action thriller Emancipation, which is described as being closer in tone to Apocalypto and The Revenant than 12 Years a Slave. Bill Collage (Exodus: Gods and Kings) wrote the script, which is based on the harrowing true story of Peter, a runaway slave whose “scourged back” went viral, in a sense, all the way back in 1863. Peter was a slave on a Louisiana plantation owned by John and Bridget Lyons, …
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