Morgan Freeman has signed on to star in Beautiful Jim Key, a drama from Cargo Entertainment, the company said Friday. Robert Rodat, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter who wrote Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot, is making his directorial debut with the project, whose international rights Cargo is selling in Cannes. Jim Key tells the true story of ex-slave, Civil War veteran and self-taught veterinarian Dr. William Key who trained a horse named Beautiful Jim Key to read, spell and do math. Because he is black, Key is relegated to carnival sideshows until he recruited Albert Rogers, a one-
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- 5/17/2014
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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