Set against the backdrop of the Rodney King riots, the film will center on Craig’s Ollie, a white man who falls for a working-class mother played by Halle Berry.
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The two characters try and track down the kids from the worst of the violence when the riots break out in the city. However, as he approaches what is apparently the twilight of his Bond tenure, it appears that Craig is picking projects that put him in unlikely situations.
According to Deadline, this is actually something of a passion project for Erguven – she pitched the idea back in 2011, but Mustang came together first, and earned an Oscar nomination.
English actor Daniel Craig is in early negotiations to star opposite Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry in an upcoming independent drama, “Kings”.
The 1992 LA riots started in South Central the spread out into other after a trial jury acquitted four LAPD officers of the use of excessive force in the videotaped arrest and beating of Rodney King, following a high-speed police chase.
Read: Goodbye James Bond. A total of 55 people died during the riots amid looting, assault and arson causing more than $1 billion of property damage.
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Next year, Craig will be seen in “Logan Lucky” and Berry will portray Ginger in “Kingsman: The Golden Circle”.
