I don’t think Halle Berry deserves all the acclaim she has received, especially for that pile that was Monster’s Ball and I am thinking after her string of poo-filled movies the Academy is regretting that Oscar. Either way, she has the hardware now and can be called an Oscar-winning actress so we have to live with it, but when I learn that her next role will be as a lawyer I sort of cringe.
The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Lionsgate is moving forward on Tulia which stars Halle Berry as a lawyer investigating an infamous Texas drug bust. Currently producers are in negotiations with Carl Franklin (Out of Time) to direct.
The film centers on the 1999 arrests of 46 black men in the impoverished town of Tulia, Texas — a sting effort where no money, drugs or illegal weapons were found on any of the suspects. Berry will portray the lead attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which intervened to free the citizens wrongly convicted based on one crooked cop’s testimony.
Karen Croner wrote the screenplay based on the nonfiction book “Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town” by Nate Blakeslee.
Assuming everything is in order, production will begin May 1 in Louisiana.
