Fox Searchlight Acquires ‘The Birth of a Nation’ for $17.5 Million (Nat Turner Bio)

Wall Street Journal ^ | January 26, 2016 | Erich Schwartzel

[C19fan]

Less than 24 hours after its roaring arrival at the Sundance Film Festival, “The Birth of a Nation” has made history with the biggest deal in the festival’s history.

Fox Searchlight has acquired world-wide rights to the Nat Turner biopic for $17.5 million — a whopping amount that reflects the movie’s critical and commercial prospects and the crowded field of bidders hitting festivals now.

[C19fan]

Expect a slew of Oscar nominations. Should one cheer when Turner and his gang murder women and childred?

[Bubba_Leroy]

Birth of a Nation has already been out for a few years.

The new one must be a remake.

[MHT]

Thought that this was part of our cultural history that was not supposed to be revisited like Amos and Andy.

[BenLurkin]

[House Atreides]

Hell, they should make a movie about the “Wichita Massacre”. They could steal another name from an earlier movie “In Cold Blood”.

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