LOS ANGELES, May 6 (UPI) -- New Line Cinema says it is planning a film about the young U.S. lawyer who helped argue the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.
The Hollywood movie studio said it has hired "The West Wing" writer-producers Lawrence O'Donnell and Paul Redford to write a script based on the story of Greenberg, who argued racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
New Line said it first set up the untitled project in October 2003 when it acquired a treatment from Columbia Law School students Michael Bogner and John Saroff based on Greenberg's book, "Crusaders in the Courts."
Greenberg is a professor at the school.
The film focuses on Greenberg, an inexperienced assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who finds himself under the tutelage of civil-rights legend Thurgood Marshall.
Along with Marshall, Greenberg defended innocent men sentenced to death, battled the corrupt police and judges of the South and ultimately helped argue the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court, New Line said.
