Charlize Theron Targeted To Play Hunter Johnson

Charlize Theron is the frontrunner to play real-life investigative reporter Claudia Hunter Johnson in a harrowing new movie about America's modern race issues. Pulitzer Prize-nominated Hunter Johnson spent years investigating the trial and incarceration of Floridian Ruby McCullum with money she won from movie veteran Paul Newman as part of a freedom of speech award. And now her tale of mistrials, racism and injustice is to be made into a hard-hitting new movie and producer Ron Samuels wants Theron to play the feisty journalist. Samuels hopes the film will be one of the first under his new Invitation Entertainment banner.