{"id":38122,"date":"2014-11-07T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38122"},"modified":"2014-11-07T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T03:00:13","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-bob-simonds-stx-in-talks-to-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38122","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey & Gary Ross Mount Civil War Saga; Bob Simonds\u2019 STX In Talks To Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew McConaughey & Gary Ross Mount Civil War Saga; Bob Simonds\u2019 STX In Talks To Finance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Deadline Hollywood<\/a>
\n2014-11-05<\/p>\n

Mike Fleming Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, Film Editor<\/p>\n

Anita Busch<\/strong><\/a>, Film Editor<\/p>\n

EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> Matthew McConaughey<\/a> and writer-director Gary Ross<\/a> are the catalysts for a project called Free State Of Jones<\/em>, which is getting some serious attention from STX Entertainment<\/a>, the new mini-studio founded by investors TPG Growth, Gigi Pritzker<\/a>, Hony and Robert Simonds<\/a>. We hear that company reps, financial partner IM Global (who is handling foreign), and the filmmakers are heading to AFM this afternoon to discuss pre-sales. This is one of many projects STX is considering pushing through as part of its first slate. They are looking to go before the cameras in the first quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n

Free State Of Jones<\/em> is based on the untold and extraordinary story of Newton Knight<\/a>, the leader of one of the greatest rebellions in Civil War<\/a> history, and we hear that STX may finance (up to $20M) for the $65M-budgeted story of one of the most controversial men from the that era. McConaughey is in talks to play the Mississippian<\/a>, who defected from the Confederate Army<\/a>, banded together with a group of like-minded soldiers, and set out to form their own State known as the Free State Of Jones.<\/p>\n

Knight would later have a common-law marriage to a former slave, one of the first outwardly mixed racial unions in the South \u2014 unheard of at the time. The rebellious Knight actually fought against the Confederates from within the state and after the war freed children still enslaved after a daring raid…<\/p>\n

Note from Steven F. Riley: For more about the Knight family, please read <\/strong>Victoria E. Bynum\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> superb monograph, The Free State of Jones: Mississippi\u2019s Longest Civil War<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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