Willam N. Collage wrote the script for the film described as an action thriller
Apple has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to “Emancipation,” a thriller based on the true story of a runaway slave that will be directed by Antoine Fuqua and star Will Smith, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.
The film was acquired out of the Cannes Virtual Market nad will premiere in theaters and on Apple TV+.
Willam N. Collage wrote the original script that’s based on true events and is the story of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey North. Once there, he joined the Union Army. When Peter showed his bare back during an Army medical examination, photos were taken of the scars from a whipping delivered by an overseer on the plantation owned by John and Bridget Lyons that nearly killed him.
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The film is inspired by the famous “scourged back” photograph that was published by the Independent in May, 1863 and then in Harper’s Weekly’s July 4 issue, and it became indisputable proof of the cruelty and barbarity of slavery in America.
