Mahershala Ali Wants to Star in the Prison Drama Film SOLITARY

Fox Searchlight is working on making a new prison drama called Solitary. The film is based on the Albert Woodfox memoir Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades In Solitary Confinement, My Story of Transformation and Hope.

“Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana—all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the U.S. and around the world.”

The film will be executive produced by Mahershala Ali who is also planning on starring. No director or screenwriter has been attached to Solitary yet. Who would you like to see involved in this film?

Via: Variety