Hollywood Movie on the '67 Riots

[dtowncitylover]

Looks like Hollywood is doing some Detroit history. I can't tell if it's going to be about the 67 Riots or set to the backdrop of the 67 riots. Either way, very interesting!

http://www.freep.com/story/entertain...ures/79488600/

[archfan]

Looks like the riots are a backdrop: "The film is described as a true-crime drama that takes place amidst the devastating unrest that occurred over five days in 1967 and resulted in National Guard troops being sent into Detroit."

[Hypestyles]

The studio should hire locals for various roles. Hopefully the local auditions will be soon.

[jerrytimes]

This will be an interesting watch.

[Meddle]

There's another story [[probably many others) that would be a better movie subject.

I'm pretty sure it's been discussed here a few times before too.

John Percy Boyd
Mark Clyde Bethune
Hayward Brown

Odd ... went to get some dates for the incident and found this:

http://voiceofdetroit.net/2010/09/12...mieres-sept-1/

Wonder how impartial it is?


This paragraph tells me 'probably not at all':

“Vigilante” tells the story of Hayward Brown, Mark Clyde Bethune, and John Percy Boyd, college students in 1970’s Detroit, who went to war to rid their community of big-time heroin dealers. The three got into shoot-outs with Detroit cops from the infamous undercover STRESS unit [[Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets). STRESS, which was guarding the drug houses targeted by the trio, had already killed at least 17 Black men. During the shoot-outs, STRESS officer Robert Bradford was killed and another officer wounded.

[john greathouse]

I hope people realize the film is based on fantasy. And is about as far from fact as Charley and the chocolate factory