Actor
Brad
Pitt
has
planned
to
do
a
movie
on
the
subject
of
slavery.
According
to
reports,
The
Hollywood
star
is
producing
the
on-screen
adaptation
of
Twelve
Years
a
Slave
under
his
banner
Plan
B.
Chiwetel
Ejiofor
is
attached
to
star
in
the
movie,
which
will
be
directed
by
Steve
McQueen.
Twelve
Years
a
Slave
is
an
autobiography
of
Solomon
Northup
written
in
1853.
Besides
direction,
Steve
McQueen,
who
co-wrote
and
directed
the
acclaimed
2008
drama
Hunger,
has
co-written
the
script
for
the
movie
with
John
Ridley.
Chiwetel
Ejiofor,
who
has
appeared
in
Salt
and
Inside
Man,
will
play
Northup.
However,
Solomon
Northup
was
a
married
and
educated
free
black
man
living
in
New
York
when
two
men
approached
him
with
a
job
offer
in
Washington.
When
he
showed
up
in
DC,
he
was
kidnapped
and
put
in
a
slave
pen.
But
he
was
able
to
secure
his
freedom
when
a
white
carpenter
from
Canada,
who
didn"t
believe
in
slavery,
was
able
to
smuggle
out
letters
to
Northup"s
wife.