I hope that Viola Davis is making tons of room in her house somewhere for the amount of Oscars and other fancy awards she’ll be collecting after this film comes out. Fresh off her award seasons wins for her portrayal of Aibileen Clark in “The Help”, Variety is reporting that Davis is setting her sights to bring a Barbara Jordan biopic to the big screen.

Jordan was the booming voice of the nation’s conscience during the Watergate hearings, and an African-American pioneer in politics and other areas.

Based on the biographical book “Barbara Jordan: American Hero,” by Mary Beth Rogers, writer/director Paris Qualles is adapting the book for a pic that traces Jordan’s rise from a poor Houston neighborhood to an elected member of Congress and an influential figure in liberal politics.

“In a world of movies about giants and Martians and toys come to life, if you can actually get involved with a movie about a human who single-handedly changed American politics, you say ‘yes,’?” Barclay told Variety. “We’re hoping this becomes a movie that shows the world everything that Viola can do. People haven’t seen everything that she’s capable of, and this role is so powerful.”

Davis, who is currently filming “Ender’s Game”, is hoping to produce the biopic e with her husband, Julius Tennon.

憑借《幫助》（The Help）獲得奧斯卡最佳女主角提名的維奧拉·戴維斯（Viola Davis）將在一部傳記片中扮演美國(guó)民權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)領(lǐng)袖、首位黑人女性眾議員芭芭拉·喬丹（Barbara Jordan）。

芭芭拉·喬丹1936年出生，曾任德州參議員，后又成為美國(guó)眾議院首位來(lái)自南方的黑人婦女代表。1974年在“水門事件”聽(tīng)證會(huì)中，她以優(yōu)雅和激情的方式維護(hù)了美國(guó)憲法，給人們留下深刻印象。就在她政治事業(yè)蒸蒸日上的時(shí)候，她卻于45歲生日前從公眾眼中消失，回到了得克薩斯。1996年1月17號(hào)芭芭拉·喬丹死于肺炎并發(fā)癥。芭芭拉·喬丹生前曾獲得過(guò)總統(tǒng)自由勛章等無(wú)數(shù)榮譽(yù)，并留下了不少經(jīng)典的演講。

該片根據(jù)瑪麗·貝絲·羅杰斯（Mary Beth Rogers）所著傳記《芭芭拉·喬丹：美國(guó)的英雄》（Barbara Jordan: American Hero）改編，由帕里斯·巴克利（Paris Barclay）執(zhí)導(dǎo)。

維奧拉·戴維斯在《幫助》之后演藝事業(yè)得到了迅速發(fā)展，她的下兩部影片是《安德的游戲》（Ender’s Game）和《美麗生靈》（Beautiful Creatures）。