I Am A Man: The True Story Of Chief Standing Bear | Jim Sheridan

[Cremildo]

Six-time Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) has inked a deal to co-write, direct and produce the historical drama I Am a Man: The True Story of Chief Standing Bear with Andrew Troy.

The film with formal Resolutions of Support from the Ponca Tribe will depict the Ponca’s “Trail of Tears” march that led to the 1879 landmark trial of Standing Bear vs. the United States of America. This mostly unknown legal case helped all Native Americans to be considered “human beings” under the law, also setting legal precedent for many future civil rights matters within the U.S. courts. [+]

[Gacivory]

I’m in!

[BluBonnet]

[Cremildo]

Hoping this comes to fruition. Sheridan announced several projects since that movie starring Rooney Mara (including another one about a real-life native), and all of them have stalled.

[Cremildo]

Sheridan gives an update:

We have a script which we’re refining and I’m going to the states in the summer or earlier, to start putting it together to shoot, either in the winter or next spring