This is the kind of wonderfully atypical Civil Rights-era story that gets me excited!
Author Margot Lee Shetterly’s book, "Hidden Figures," which actually won’t be published until next year, via HarperCollins, has been optioned for Ted Melfi to direct (he’s the director of last year’s acclaimed dramedy "St. Vincent," which starred Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, and Naomi Watts. Terrence Howard played a supporting role in the film, which was Melfi’s feature directorial debut).
Shetterly’s "Hidden Figures" tells the untold true story of the African American women mathematicians – Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Kathryn Peddrew, Sue…
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