![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the next morning is when he announced to the world that he was in the nation of Islam. "There was one paragraph in the book that mentioned that the night Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston, February 25, 1964, he went back to Malcom X’s hotel room with his friends, Malcolm, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown. Perhaps the American average reader has learned more about that period from fic- tion. "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. Romance and legend have clustered round the history of Catherine. 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. The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1993 novel Queen: The Story of an American Family, by Alex Haley and David Stevens. 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.). ![]()
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