Brad Pitt and his Plan B banner are tackling the subject of slavery with an adaptation of “Twelve Years a Slave,” an autobiography written in 1853 by Solomon Northup, a free black man who became enslaved. Steve McQueen, who co-wrote and directed the acclaimed 2008 drama “Hunger,” is directing the adaptation while Chiwetel Ejiofor is attached to the part of Northup. McQueen co-wrote the script with John Ridley. 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 D.C., he was kidnapped and put in a slave pen, paving the way to his grueling life under numerous owners.
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