John Singleton takes over Tulia

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Tulia, the movie that re-unites Monster's Ball co-stars Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton has found itself a new director. John Singleton, who previously helmed Four Brothers, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Shaft will helm the movie after Carl Franklin dropped out.

The film, about an ACLU lawyer's efforts to expose a corrupt and racially motivated rash of drug convictions in rural Tulia, Texas, in 1999, is an adaptation of the Nate Blakeslee book "Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town." The film, about an ACLU lawyer's efforts to expose a corrupt and racially motivated rash of drug convictions in rural Tulia, Texas, in 1999, is an adaptation of the Nate Blakeslee book "Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town."

The whole movie feels to me like a bit of a gimmick to try and revitalise the careers of both Berry and Thornton who can't get the big dramatic roles anymore. They are going for the nostalgia button here and hoping they can have the same kind of success they had six years ago. As far as the new director goes, John Singleton's movies have never done anything for me but neither has Carl Franklin's, so this don't change anything for my point of view. Two actors whose work over the past few years have been nothing but shit. source - coming soon, black film