John Krasinski has joined Kathryn Bigelow’s next project, an untitled crime drama set amid Detroit’s 1967 riots.

Though specific plot details have yet to be revealed, the film takes place against the backdrop of the devastating riots, which left 43 people dead and 340 injured across five days in the summer of 1967. The story will address systematic racism in urban Detroit.

The movie will reunite Bigelow with screenwriter Mark Boal, who previously worked with the director on The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. It’s planned for a release in 2017, pegged to the 50th anniversary of the protests. No specific date has been announced.

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