U.S.-based Phoenix Pictures will produce the thriller "The Soundman" and has tapped writer-director Wesley Strick to helm.
Strick, whose writing credits include "Cape Fear" and "Arachnophobia," also penned the screenplay.
"Soundman" centers on a white FBI agent who is saddled with the job of spying on Martin Luther King Jr. but struggles with a crisis of conscience and ultimately heads off an assassination attempt on the civil rights leader's life.