Jodie Foster Directs "Sugar Kings"

Jodie Foster, 43, comes back to the director's chair after ten years. This time she will direct a film based on the Vanity Fair article "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar" by Marie Brenner, written for the screen by Ned Zemna and Daniel Barnz. Marie Brenner is the same journalist whose in-depth investigations spurred the Michael Mann film.

The story of "Sugar Kings" revolves around a female lawyer, fresh out of law school, who joins a veteran public-interest attorney in an attempt to take on a powerful sugar baron on behalf of exploited migrant workers.


In the original article two brothers, Alfy and Pepe Fanjul, who owned a sugar empire in Florida, were hounded by an attorney, Edward Tuddenham, who charged them for enforcing slave labor on their 20,000-strong force of cane-cutters and hiding the injustice behind their political connections and social standing. (Hollywood Reporter).

Director Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays") may also star in Sugar Kings, a movie produced by Robert De Niro's Tribeca Films.
The actress will next be seen in the Disnet thriller "Fightplan", which will hit theatres in September.