HBO Films has teamed up with writer Kirk Ellis and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV for a project about Harriet Tubman. Oscar nominee Viola Davis is set to portray this amazing woman.
Based on the biography Bound For The Promised Land by historian Kate Clifford Larson, the film, now in development, tells the story of American hero Tubman. Born a slave, she escaped and, via an intricate escape network of secret routes and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad, she led more than 300 slaves to freedom in the North and later fought with the Union during the Civil War.
No word on a release date.
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