Director hired for Black, superhero film where only Black people have powers

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Gerard McMurray, director of The First Purge, has come aboard the film Black, based on the 2016 indie comic of the same name. Black, the upcoming project which imagines a world where only Black people have superpowers, has found its director. The film, which is being produced by Studio 8 and distributed by Warner Bros, will be helmed by The First Purgeā€™s Gerard McMurray. McMurray is in demand at the moment, having started out as a producer on 2013ā€™s Fruitvale Station, that was directed by Ryan Coogler. He has also been tapped to helm Booker for Sony as well as The Formula, a Netflix racing car drama starring John Boyega and Robert De Niro. The First Purge made over $130m from a $13m production budget so McMurrayā€™s star is high and he seems to have the pick of many a project. The film adaptation of Black will centre ā€˜on a young man who discovers his powers after surviving a violent crime. He soon finds himself in the middle of a war over the future of humanity in a world in which a secret society seeks to control the empowered and their abilities.ā€™ Weā€™ll bring you more updates as we hear them. The Hollywood Reporter ā€” Thank you for visiting! If youā€™d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website: Follow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here. Buy our Film Stories and Film Stories Junior print magazines here. Become a Patron here.
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