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.