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The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 is to be depicted in a feature film for the first time under the direction of veteran filmmaker Tim Story, according to a film industry report.

Deadline Hollywood reported Wednesday that Story, who has directed the “Ride Along” films and the “Think Like a Man” movies and has grossed more than $1 billion at the box office, will produce and direct.

The race riot has been depicted in documentaries, and a TV miniseries under the production of the Oprah Winfrey Network on the subject was announced more than two years ago.

While that project reportedly had Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer attached to star as a fictional reporter who is the main character, the film has not progressed to filming.

According to the Deadline Hollywood report, Zero Gravity Management and The Story Co. are developing a Tulsa Race Riot film based on a 2014 book, “Holocaust in the Homeland: Black Wall Street’s Last Days.”

The book by Corinda Pitts Marsh also sees the events of the Tulsa Race Riot “through the eyes of a fictional reporter,” according to a synopsis on the Amazon website.