Lee Daniels Entertainment

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PMThe true story of Vernon Turner, who, despite being raised by a mother who was an addict and prostitute, attempts to make it to the NFL in order to save his siblings from a ruinous fate.

Logline: A troubled young man returns to his hometown and reunites with his childhood sweetheart who is embroiled in a conspiracy.

Logline: Set in the 1930s, the story centers on nine African American teens who were wrongly accused of a heinous crime against a white woman, and sentenced to death. But, with the help of several organizations, the case was appealed, and would go on to become one the biggest cases against racism in federal courts to date.