'I was a journalist in my former life, and this was just a paragraph in a book that I'd been reading on the intersection between sports and the Civil Rights Movement,' Kemp Powers, who wrote the screenplay for the film, explained.
Directed by Regina King, the film is based entirely on true events-the four men really did spend time together one night, after Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beat Sonny Liston in Miami. is a fictionalized account of a February 1964 meeting of Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree), Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge), and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.).
