Reginald Hudlin to Direct Black Cotton Star Adaptation

According to Deadline, Reginald Hudlin will direct a film adaptation of the graphic novel Black Cotton Star, a World War II saga of Black soldiers on a quest across France to find a secret Revolutionary War artifact.

Yves Sente and Steve Cuzor, the writer and artist of the original graphic novel, will serve as executive producers along with Martin J. Barab, with Deric Hughes and Benjamin Raab penning the script. Hudlin will direct and produce the film for ZQ Entertainment along with Ara Keshishian and Petr Jakl from ZQ, and Adrian Askarieh of Prime Universe.

Black Cotton Star is published by Pegasus Books and digitally by Europe Comics in the United States. It originally was published by Média-Participations, a French-Belgian company, under its Dupuis imprint. The story involves a trio of Black soldiers on a dangerous mission from Paris to the Ardennes to recover the original Star-Spangled Banner crafted by Betsy Ross. The flag, which was seized by Nazi forces, has an added, unknown feature -- a black star that Ross's handmaid, who is Black, sewed under one of the white ones.

Hudlin's directing credits include House Party, Boomerang, The Great White Hype and Marshall, and he produced Django Unchained. He also had a run as writer of Black Panther and the Marvel Knights Spider-Man for Marvel.