Jodie Foster To Direct 'Sugar Kings'
[Monday, July 25th, 2005]
Jodie Foster is to direct and possibly star in Universal Pictures Sugar Kings, says Variety.The feature is about a young lawyer who teams with a veteran public-interest attorney to take on powerful sugar barons who are exploiting cane-cutting migrant workers.
The movie is based on Marie Brenner's Vanity Fair investigative article 'In the Kingdom of Big Sugar'. The article focuses on Alfy and Pepe Fanjul, who owned a sugar-manufacturing empire in Florida.
The magnates were hounded by attorney Edward Tuddenham, who charged the brothers treated 20,000 sugar-cane cutters like slave labor, hiding behind their well-developed political connections and social standing.
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