George Floyd , the 46-year-old man whose murder by a Minneapolis police officer ignited anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests across the US, will be the subject of a big-screen biopic. The film, titled Daddy Changed the World , will depict the life of Floyd who became a symbol of racial injustice when his murder sparked the surge in Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. Deadline reports that Radar Pictures, which has credits including Jumanji and The Last Samurai , in partnership with 8 Queens Film & Media Production and Night Fox Entertainment, will produce the feature film.
Floyd’s family have authorised the film; his daughter Gianna and his mother Roxie Washington will work as executive producers to ensure the biopic’s authenticity and connection to Floyd’s story. Gregory R Anderson, the writer of the 2007 street dance film Stomp the Yard , will write the script. The movie is still in search of a director.
The announcement of the film’s commissioning arrives days before the fourth anniversary of Floyd’s murder on 25 May 2020. Videos of Floyd’s murder, showing police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck for approximately nine minutes despite Floyd saying he could not breathe more than 20 times, went viral on social media, sparking international racial justice protests under the Black Lives Matter movement. Audio recordings from the bodycam footage taken at the scene showed that Floyd was pleading for his mother, and asking Chauvin to stop.
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