via Deadline
Lotus Entertainment and Paperchase Films are teaming with financier and executive producer Marco Vicini to produce Superman vs. the KKK, a film adaptation of Rick Bowers' 2012 YA nonfiction book.
Bowers' book (full title: Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate) chronicled the creation of a real-life 1946 radio drama in which Superman took on a Klan-like group. The book will be adapted for the screen by Katherine Lindberg.
The team describes the movie plot as chronicling a former Klan member who goes undercover in 1946 Atlanta and works with the Anti-Defamation League and the producer of the Superman radio show. ”Fighting the forces of evil with brain over brawn, artists taking down bullies and the power of a good piece of content, it's a real case of truth being cooler than fiction," said producer Marc Rosen.