Jodie Foster Returns to Work

Jodie Foster will direct and likely star in "Sugar Kings," based on Marie Brenner's Vanity Fair Investigative Article "In the Kingdom of Big Sugar." Scripted by screenwriter's Ned Zeman and Daniel Barnz, "Sugar" is about a young lawyer who teams up with a veteran public-interest attorney to take on powerful sugar barons who are exploiting cane-cutting migrant workers. The article focuses on Alfy and Pepe Fanjul who owned a sugar-manufacturing empire in Florida. The magnates were hounded by attorney Edward Tuddenham, who charged the brothers treated 20,000 sugar-cane cutters like slave labor, hiding behind their well-developed political connections and social standings. Foster will next be seen in "FlightPlan" and has been starring alongside Denzel Washington and Clive Owen in the Spike Lee-directed heist drama "The Inside Man."