Now this looks promising...

Dark Horizons.com is reporting that director Lee Daniels' follow up to his Oscar-winning "Precious" will be a film with a shorter title but equally serious subject matter, the civil rights drama "Selma". The film begins production in May. Recently, Liam Neeson and Cedric the Entertainer joined the cast as President Lyndon B. Johnson and Ralph Abernathy, who helped Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the historic march in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Musician Lenny Kravitz, who worked with Daniels on "Precious", will star as civil rights figure Andrew Young. No word on whether "Precious" stars Gabourey Sidibe or Mo'Nique may join the cast. British actor David Oyelowo will play King, while Hugh Jackman will play racist sheriff Jim Clark.