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Anthony Mackie to Open Film Production Studio on 20-Acre Lot in New Orleans ”Falcon and the Winter Soldier“ star is a NOLA native

Mackie will next be seen in Peacock’s “Twisted Metal” series based on the video game franchise, and he’s also making his directorial debut on a film called “Spark” about civil rights icon Claudette Colvin, which has “King Richard” breakout Saniyya Sidney attached to star.

“Spark” will look at how Colvin on March 2, 1955 was arrested when she was only 15 years old in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before Rosa Parks did the same thing which led to the Montgomery Bus boycotts.