Samuel L. Jackson is being courted to play civil rights icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a Broadway production set in a Memphis motel room the day before King’s assassination in 1968, The New York Post said Wednesday.
Samuel L. Jackson will host the 17th annual ESPYs this summer.
The 2009 ESPY Awards, celebrating the year’s best in stories, will air Sunday, July 19 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN HD.
Samuel L. Jackson promotes his comic strip-inspired film, The Spirit, opening Christmas Day, on The View Tuesday.
Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac will share the silver screen in Soul Men, opening in theaters November 7.
Dimension Films has released a trailer for the upcoming motion picture Soul Men, starring Samuel L. Jackson and the late Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes, both of whom passed away last month.
The actors play the lone surviving members of popular ’70s soul band in the movie, which opens November 7.
