Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Amazon Studios will team up to produce K Troop, a film based on the controversial white supremacist group, Ku Klux Klan. Gordon-Levitt will produce and potentially star in the drama.
The film, based on an upcoming Slate article by Matthew Pearl, is set after the Civil War and chronicles the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the South in 1865. Gordon-Levitt could potentially star as Major Lewis Merrill, a commander who led the U.S. Army’s K Troop against the KKK in 1871. The project is currently in search of a writer.
Amazon Studios recently purchased Woody Allen‘s new untitled movie for $15 million and Casey Affleck‘s Manchester by the Sea for $10 million at the Sundance Film Festival.
Gordon-Levitt will appear next in Oliver Stone‘s Snowden. The actor plays Edward Snowden, the man responsible for leaking classified US government information. He’s also attached to star in the live-action Fraggle Rock movie for New Regency and in an untitled Universal musical comedy alongside Channing Tatum.
