After successfully playing baseball great Jackie Robinson, Chadwick Boseman will play another Icon: James Brown.
Boseman has been cast to play Brown in a biopic by “The Help” director Tate Taylor. The film, from Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, is currently untitled.
Mick Jagger and Brian Grazer are among the film’s producers.
The film is set to begin shooting this fall in Mississippi.
On Monday, during an interview, Taylor said of the great soul singer, “Those are big shoes to fill.”
