Tom Sizemore & ‘Cobra Kai’ Star Martin Kove Join Biopic ‘I Am A Man’ About Ponca Chief Standing Bear
Exclusive: Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan) and Cobra Kai star Martin Kove will serve as executive producers on biopic I Am A Man, about Native American Chief Standing Bear.
Currently in development, longtime Anonymous Content exec Paul Green (The Loft) is producing the project with Andrew Troy (Growing Up Smith) who has scripted and will direct. Troy has adapted the script from book I Am A Man by Joseph Starita.
Set in Nebraska in 1879, the film will tell the dramatic and inspirational story of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, who, after experiencing decades of maltreatment and disenfranchisement, successfully argued in U.S. District Court in Omaha that Native Americans are “persons within the meaning of the law”, thus becoming the first Native American judicially granted civil rights under American law.
Standing Bear, who went on to become a civil rights advocate, is reported to have told the court during the landmark...
Currently in development, longtime Anonymous Content exec Paul Green (The Loft) is producing the project with Andrew Troy (Growing Up Smith) who has scripted and will direct. Troy has adapted the script from book I Am A Man by Joseph Starita.
Set in Nebraska in 1879, the film will tell the dramatic and inspirational story of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, who, after experiencing decades of maltreatment and disenfranchisement, successfully argued in U.S. District Court in Omaha that Native Americans are “persons within the meaning of the law”, thus becoming the first Native American judicially granted civil rights under American law.
Standing Bear, who went on to become a civil rights advocate, is reported to have told the court during the landmark...
- 1/6/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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