Greengrass writes script for Martin Luther King film

Martin Luther King is to be the subject of a new movie by Paul Greengrass.

The 'Green Zone' director - who was recently rumoured to be hot a possibility for the head role in the forthcoming 'Cleopatra' movie starring Angelina Jolie - is said to have written a script entitled 'Memphis' about the events leading up to the civil rights campaigner's last moments before his assassination on April 4, 1968.