Assuming for a moment that you probably aren’t a despicable racist, could you ever imagine sitting down and listening to 13 whole cassette tapes of Mark Fuhrman casually using the n-word several thousand times while bragging about beating up innocent black people? That feels like a tall order for anybody, let alone people with consciences. One assumes that these tapes miiight’ve included less horrible topics — Mark Fuhrman’s preferred food item at Wendy’s or his favorite Seinfeld episodes perhaps? — but the worst and most disgusting parts of those tapes certainly overshadow everything else. Go ahead and label those tapes “Bad Times” and use a Sharpie.


Depending on whether you sided with the defense or the prosecution in the O.J. Simpson trial, those tapes may have just been “Manna From Heaven.” In fact, that’s what this week’s episode was titled! It’s worth pointing out that in the Old Testament’s version of events, the manna from Heaven did not involve so many uses of the n-word, at least not in any Bible I’m familiar with. Yet here was Johnnie Cochran, praising the Lord for 13 cassette tapes’ worth of abject hate-speech. See, these weren’t just recordings of a bad cop saying bad things, they were a confirmation of the darkest fears anyone’s ever harbored toward law enforcement. So, uh, thanks, Mark Fuhrman? Like, jump in a grave, but also thanks in a way? 


Guys, this was a very upsetting episode of TV! But sometimes necessary things are upsetting, and “Manna From Heaven” felt necessary and essential. Let’s talk about it!

Almost nothing provokes such a vast spectrum of emotion as receiving a jury summons. Anger, annoyance, confusion, excitement, solemnity, resignation. Tons of feelings emanate from that beige envelope like rays from a particularly d–kish sun. All but the most naive or bored know that jury duty is something to get out of, but it’s our proud American duty to serve! So report we must. 

As much of a pain as jury duty can be, I think we’ve all sat in those immense, drably-carpeted waiting rooms fantasizing about being selected for a jury in some kind of huge, high-profile case. That would make the whole process worth it, right? To be part of an important trial? Well, no trial has ever been as important as the O.J. Simpson trial, and if “A Jury in Jail” is to be trusted, perhaps no jury has had a worse experience. From actual verbal abuse by the courthouse guards to denial of everyday pleasantries like television or swimming pool access, the jurors eventually turned on each other and the system itself. But where most of us knew of all the dysfunction surrounding the prosecution and defense, all this jury drama had been shielded from public eye. Until now! What a truly fascinating episode. Let’s talk about it.

We began in a tacky hotel conference room where a borderline RACE RIOT was about to break out.

Meet the men and women of the O.J. Simpson trial jury. We were eight months into their daily ordeal and it was safe to say that they were no longer stoked or excited to be apart of the Trial of the Century. But things weren’t always this way.

We flashed back to their original arrival at the hotel in which they’d be sequestered, and a few were feeling pretty jazzed about getting a high-profile vacation for their efforts. But within minutes they were all being yelled at very harshly by uniformed officers, and also they weren’t allowed to read magazines, watch TV, or even take a sweet dip in the jacuzz’! 

So right away things were not fun, and this was before outright arguments broke out between the jurors that reflected tons of racial tension. For example, all the white people wanted to watch Seinfeld on the communal television, but they were outnumbered by those who wanted to watch Martin.

If we are being honest, this was the only correct decision this jury ever made. Martin was the best.

The Dream Team, however, was having a GREAT time. This was mostly due to the whole “glove not fitting” incident, a victory which caused them to break out champagne and do cartwheels around the office. Even O.J. was feeling pretty good, as evidenced by this very fun-seeming poker game he played with the boys using Skittles for money. (I honestly would’ve Hungry Hungry Hippo’d that whole table.) In contrast, Marcia Clark was feeling very angry and bummed about the glove thing (which made her kinda hate Chris Darden even more than the time he failed to sex her up on vacation). But in her opinion they still had very convincing DNA evidence on their side.

The upcoming episode of American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson will focus on conspiracy theories around the case and the bloody leather gloves which were found at the crime scene, will be examined. The accused athlete will also have to try on the gloves to check whether they fit him or not.


Episode 7 is titled, Conspiracy Theories, which will air on 15 March at 10pm EST on FX networks. The official synopsis reads as follows:

Conspiracy theories start to arise around the case. The prosecution debates whether they should have O.J. Simpson (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) try on the gloves in court.

The promo for the upcoming episode shows attorney Robert Kardashian telling Johnnie Cochran, "I have trouble with the blood on the Bronco [OJ's car], that anyone could've planted all of it." The episode will highlight the controversial black gloves, as F Lee Bailey points out, "Nicole [Brown] bought the globes." While Marcia Clark will use the gloves to prove OJ Simpson guilty.

Clark says, "This is it. Cold hard proof. The Gloves are our conviction." Brown had bought Simpson two pairs of this type of gloves in 1990. In the original trail, the prosecution claimed that the glove contained DNA evidence from Simpson, Brown and Goldman. Also the other glove at Simpson's house contained a long strand of blonde hair similar to Nicole Brown's.

The glove controversy will be the highlight of the hour, but to know how show will handle this aspect in the case, keep watching American Crime Story.

LAPD detectives hit a dead end with the knife that was buried on O.J. Simpson’s Rockingham estate, TMZ has learned.

Sources familiar with the situation tell us, the DNA testing produced no matches. We’re told the microbes in the soil degraded any DNA to the point it was impossible to get a meaningful result.


O.J. Simpson Investigators Examine Knife Supposedly Found on His Old Estate

We’re also told there was no hair or other sample that produced a lead.


TMZ broke the story … a construction worker found the buck knife with a 5" blade buried on the perimeter of the property and gave it to a retired LAPD cop who was doing traffic control for a movie shoot. The cop took it home and put it in his tool box for more than a dozen years.

Knife allegedly found at O.J. Simpson's former home stuns police

The LAPD has not announced the results, but we’re told the investigation is over.


Fact is … it’s impossible to know for sure if this was the murder knife, but it is interesting it appears to have been buried long enough to degrade any DNA.

Knife found on O.J. Simpson's property 'inconsistent' with murders: reports

'The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story' Recap: Things Get Ugly

More than 20 years later, the public is still enthralled with every aspect of O.J. Simpson's infamous 1995 murder trial.

Thanks to the recent bombshell that a knife that was allegedly recovered on Simpson's property and the weekly depiction of the trial through FX's The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, the line between what is real and what's been added for pure entertainment value continues to blur more than two decades later.


One of the most intriguing aspects of the famed case was the common belief that prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden were more than just colleagues. Sarah Paulson and Sterling K. Brown's chemistry-packed character portrayals of Clark and Darden, respectively, on American Crime Story have further fueled the relationship speculation.

When ET caught up with Clark last September, the famed attorney confessed that she hopes American Crime Story will depict "the truth" about her relationship between Darden.

What exactly is the truth, you ask? "Chris and I were trench mates," Clark said. "He kept me from just utter depression so many days."

Clark explained that the jury's blatant distain for in the courtroom and the prying eyes of the public her often left her feeling "dispirited" and Darden was one of the few people who could cheer her up.


"Sometimes it would really get to me," she spilled. "And he would be there to say, 'It's alright, it's going to be okay. If we just keep putting on the evidence, they'll get it. They'll get it.'"

"He was a great partner, and I hope they show that," Clark added.

Few things are as therapeutic as a few hours at the salon. In these sacred spaces we entrust our outward appearances, our most fundamental method of interacting with the world, to a professional with our best interests at heart. But in the crazy, mixed-up world of mid-’90s Los Angeles, even this most time-honored tradition can be inverted and warped into a nightmare. In other words, nobody deserves a perm as crispy and ridiculous as the one Marcia Clark received in her ill-fated makeover this week. Nobody.


“Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” confirmed two truths: (1) That life is nothing more than an unceasing gauntlet of humiliation, and (2) that goes double if you were Marcia Clark circa 1995. In fact, if The People v. O.J. Simpson is any indication, Marcia Clark was sort of a Joan of Arc figure of her time, complete with a short hairdo, unfathomable persecution, and a possibly misguided faith in a higher power (which in Clark’s case would be the naive belief that “facts” were all she needed to win a conviction). And between Sarah Paulson’s subtly virtuosic performance and Ryan Murphy’s inspired direction, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” was possibly the best-yet episode of one of the most important series of 2016. Truly wonderful. (And painful!) Let’s talk about it.

We began with a severely frowning woman sitting in a courtroom not having a great time.

Despite her accidental attempts to object to opposing council’s statements, Marcia Clark was not actually a lawyer in this case! This was her child custody hearing and it was not going well. For one thing, the judge didn’t appreciate Clark’s inability to not object to things, and also the whole thing made her late for her other trial, something that earned her tons of glares from the Dream Team and Judge Ito as she sat down mortified. This was not going to be an easy day or year.

Despite initial reservations, Marcia Clark is giving FX's O.J. Simpson show two thumbs up.


In an interview with People magazine, the former prosecutor revealed what she really thinks about "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story."

Clark, 62, explained that she had her reservations about the Simpson trial being made into a miniseries at first, saying that she "thought it'd be like reliving a nightmare," and that she "didn't want to live through it again."

However, as she learned more about the 10-part show, she became more intrigued by the project.


"I thought, 'If if they tell the true story and hit the big issues, then maybe that's a good thing because there are people who need to know about what happened,'" Clark said. "Then I heard that Ryan Murphy was attached [as executive producer], and he likes to always be about something so that was a good sign."

"I was really glad, and they address the larger issues and pull out the stuff that is important," Clark said. "It turned out to be a really good thing."

"The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story" airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on FX.

There you have it, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia,” the best episode yet of what has been FX’s completely addictive The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story miniseries. The writing, and the all-star supporting cast, of course, were great, but the standout, as she has been throughout the series, is Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Sarah Paulson and her portrayal of Simpson murder trial prosecutor Marcia Clark.


Paulson talked to Yahoo TV about what it was like to be Clark during the “Trial of the Century,” what it was like to play the much maligned prosecutor, and what it was like to meet the woman she admires like a “childhood idol.”

After “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia,” it feels like we all owe Marcia Clark a big apology.

I think so, too. I think that would be a really good idea.

Why do you think this story and this trial is still resonating with people after more than 20 years?

I sort of feel like it’s a combination of a bunch of things, but chiefly nostalgia, and the sort of unfinished business of it. A lot of people can identify where they were in their lives, their work lives, their married lives, their teenage lives, when this event took place. You can go right back to that moment in your life, and you’re interested in seeing what your big take is on it now. I think the other part is how it just doesn’t feel like it was ever resolved in a way that felt good or right to anyone, or to most people. Not to mention the idea that we were able to go behind the scenes, and see all the things that we didn’t know were going on, the conversations that were happening that we were not privy to. It takes you really inside the belly of the beast, and that’s a very different vantage point from which to see this.

The biggest takeaway from “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” is how little we really knew about just how much pressure Marcia Clark was under, from so many different sources: her ex-husband, who was publicly airing their custody issues; her boss, who was recommending she see a style consultant; Judge Ito; the media and public’s scrutiny of every aspect of her appearance; and being a single mom with two young sons. How did she get through this, every day, for a year?


I think the thing that we do with most people we watch who are people we don’t know on television is that we assign certain beliefs or character traits to them, even though we’re guessing, based on what we perceive their behavior to mean, or to be. The truth is, I feel like somehow we let Marcia become a kind of animatron. She wasn’t a person to us… she was not real. She was a cardboard cutout of a person. You could say whatever you wanted about her, you could have as many opinions as you wanted about her and just say them publicly, and people would forget that this is a woman who… You asked the question, “How did she make it through?” When we were shooting this episode, I thought every single day, “I do not know how she did this.” Two tiny children at home, an ex-husband who was not protecting her, people at work deciding that she should look different, be different, smile, wear a different outfit, being just pummeled and raked over the coals at every turn… not to mention, when was she was supposed to be sleeping? When was the time where she was supposed to rest? I guess she was supposed to not… she was supposed to be trying on different lipstick colors instead of sleeping, I suppose, you know?

Few things are as emotionally confusing as competing against a friend. As Americans we are raised to win, win always, win forever. But then we are also taught to always be loyal to our friends, have each other’s backs, treat each other with respect, junk like that. So what happens when you walk into the octagon and you’re suddenly nose-to-nose with a beloved mentor? Can you truly beat a friend within an inch of his or her life and still expect to meet up for drinks at Ruby Tuesday’s afterward? Mixed emotions! 

Although almost any of the episodes could be titled this, “The Race Card” was this week’s episode of The People v. O.J. Simpson. Though we’ve all heard that phrase used to describe the courtroom tactic allegedly employed O.J. Simpson’s defense team, surprisingly it meant something different here. Was everyone aware of how vicious and race-based Johnnie Cochran’s relationship with former friend Chris Darden was? “The Race Card” continued to portray mid-’90s Los Angeles as an unsettled community and a hotbed of racist cops, but those concerns took a backseat to the inner struggle that Chris Darden seemed to be dealing with as a black man tasked to convict a black man whose defense had taken up a righteous cause against systemic racism. This case was never going to end in a beautifully eloquent, mind-changing monologue like something out of To Kill a Mockingbird, but this was the episode that things turned UGLY. But also real. Really real.

Let’s talk about it!

We began with a normal scene of a man being badgered by his daughters for a sweet treat. But it was all interrupted by a jerk on a motorcycle.

The jerk was a cop, and despite Flashback Johnnie Cochran’s calm, procedural-minded demeanor, the cop had him in handcuffs on the hood of his own car within SECONDS as dozens of Beverly Hills samaritans ate their fro-yo apathetically. An existential nightmare for anyone, but a chillingly commonplace one for Johnnie Cochran (and, you know, millions of other people).

I liked that Cochran tried to turn the moment into a teachable one for his daughters, but ultimately he only got out of this situation by politely asking the cop to read his business card… “Assistant District Attorney.” Yikes! THIS was the world and context that made the entire O.J. trial possible. The city’s Assistant District Attorney was regularly pulled over by police for no ostensible reason other than driving while black in Beverly Hills. So this flashback provided a good explanation for what motivated Johnnie Cochran to distrust the LAPD with such conviction, but it did not explain why he’d spend the rest of this episode being a total dick, pardon my French.

The FX miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story has brought the 1994-1995 murder trial of Nicole Brown Simpson back into the spotlight. For Khloé Kardashian, whose late father Robert Kardashian served on the former NFL star’s defense team, this means some difficult memories from that era have resurfaced. 


During this week’s episode of Kocktails With Khloé airing on Wednesday, the 31-year-old host details just how dark things got for her family during the the time of the trial. Khloé reveals that the word “guilty” was keyed all over their cars and “cops hated” them because their father “was defending O.J.” Khloé says that people wouldn’t even allow them to “eat at their establishments." 


The reality star also feels that the stress of the trial may have played a role in her father’s 2003 death. "What I do respect is that [regardless of] what my dad did or didn’t know, my dad would never betray his friend’s trust,” she says. “He never spoke about it. My dad also died of throat cancer which does not run in my family. My dad doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink. I think holding in secrets [and] stress kills you! I feel like you manifest things, you have to think — I’m into symbolic situations." 

Check out this video to hear what else Khloé’s has to say about the emotional subject matter, and tune in to The Insider With Yahoo on TV tonight for the latest in entertainment news.

On this week’s Kocktails With Khloe, Khloe Kardashian gets candid about The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, the FX miniseries which tells the story of the O.J. Simpson murder trial and features Khloe’s parents, Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner, as prominent characters in the legal drama.

“I have it on DVD,” Kardashian admits to her guests, Ross Mathews and Carmen Electra. “I just haven’t seen it yet.”

“You haven’t seen it? Your mom is a character in it!” Mathews exclaims. “If there was a miniseries where people were playing my parents, I would tune in.”

The 31-year-old host admits that, in the weeks leading up to the series’ premiere, she saw a lot of documentary coverage of the murder trial and “relived emotions” from that time while seeing her late father, who served as one of O.J.’s defense lawyers, and hearing his voice in news footage.

“I more felt bad for the kids [of O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson], Sydney and Justin,” she confesses. “You’ll never get over your mom being murdered, and now they have to deal with being stalked by paparazzi again.”

By now, you probably consider yourself an expert on all things O.J. Simpson murder trial-related thanks to FX’s instantly addicting miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. But we think what you might have forgotten — or maybe never even knew — could fill an article, so… here’s that article.


1. In May 1994, a month before the murders, O.J. Simpson filmed an NBC drama pilot called Frogmen, about a group of former Navy SEALs who operated an A-Team-like business out of a surf shop in Los Angeles. In one scene, Simpson’s character, John “Bullfrog” Burke, holds a knife to a woman’s throat — he thought she was an intruder, but she turned out to be his daughter — and one of his co-stars confirmed the cast had received some knife training. Because Simpson was charged with two murders that June, the project was scrapped, and the two-hour drama was never aired in public.

2. We might have a clue to who Simpson would back for president (if he still had voting privileges, of course): He was a friend of Donald Trump’s, and even attended Trump’s celeb-packed wedding to Marla Maples in December 1993. Of course, future Trump enemy Rosie O’Donnell was among the 1,000 wedding guests, too.

3. The O.J. trial was good news for true crime TV, but bad news for daytime soap operas. Court TV — relaunched as truTV in 2008 — was a niche network until it broadcast the 1993 Menendez brothers murder trial, and the Simpson trial in 1994, and its resulting popularity led to the proliferation of true crime dramas and news programs on TV today, including the all-true crime cable network, Investigation Discovery. As for soaps, because they were so frequently pre-empted by Simpson trial coverage, viewers got out of the habit of watching them. The Los Angeles Times reported that ABC, CBS, and NBC lost 10 percent of their soap audience during the trial.

As someone who rarely gets into legal trouble for which I am found innocent, I have a legal question for you: How many lawyers is enough? Most people will tell you that you should have at least one lawyer representing you in a trial, but still others might be more comfortable with two lawyers. Certain films and TV shows might portray upwards of three lawyers working to defend their client, and that’s three times as many lawyers as just having one lawyer. (I’ll check my math later.) So what’s to stop us from keeping the lawyer train rolling and just hiring, four, five, six, heck, a gross of lawyers? If I were to show up to my court date with upwards of seven thousand lawyers in tow, would that help or hurt my chances of being thrown into white collar prison again? A popular phrase is “quality over quantity” but a really good counterpoint would be “the more the merrier.” At least according to the legal strategies on display in “The Dream Team” episode of The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, it would appear that the only way to get away with murder is to hire ALL THE LAWYERS.

The trial of O.J. Simpson was a lot of things to a lot of people, but one of its cutest aspects was how instructive it was to the layman about how the justice system works, and that its lawyers — not victims or potential killer — ended up being the stars of the show. “The Dream Team” delved wingtip-first into this subject by showing how exactly O.J. came to be represented by such a wild menagerie of powerful, expensive lawyers, and also it laid the groundwork for the controversial legal strategy that would eventually lead to his acquittal. Friends, this episode was riveting. Let’s talk about it!

We began at Chin Chin, a restaurant in a Brentwood strip mall that people used to think was chic. Robert Kardashian was surrounded by four small children who were hungry for food and starving for something else…

Yep, though the trial hadn’t even started, the Kardashian patriarch was already getting recognized by strangers and given the best tables at Chin Chin. And you better believe that Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob noticed.

Tuesday is the night all Kardashian groupies have been waiting for while watching FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story: It’s the assembling of Simpson’s “Dream Team” of lawyers — O.J.’s own personal Justice League of America, with a heavy emphasis on David Schwimmer’s Robert Kardashian as its Aquaman. Or maybe he’s its Atom — he ends up looking awfully small. 


The opening scene of this week’s third episode shows Kardashian squiring li’l Kim and her siblings to a restaurant where the attorney and close friend of Simpson is asked point-blank by one of his children, “Daddy, do you think O.J. did it?” Schwimmer plays Kardashian’s reaction the way Friends’ Ross might react to an accusation of being unfaithful to Rachel. “No!” he squawks. He repeatedly refers to the accused murderer as “Uncle Juice,” and then delivers a killer speech, rich with irony given the subsequent existence of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, including such pearls of wisdom as, “We are Kardashians. And in this family, being a good person and a loyal friend is more important than being famous… Fame is fleeting and it’s hollow. It means nothing at all without a virtuous heart.” 

The content of those words suggests that the late Robert Kardashian was an honorable person and a loyal friend. It’s the guy Kanye West is doubtless saluting when he wears his “In Loving Memory” Yeezy Season 3 T-shirt with the cheesy drawing of Robert. But in the context of The People v. O.J., Kardashian comes across as a soft dupe.

One of the most intriguing aspects of FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson is the wide range of relationships on display, from the epic ego clashes of defense attorneys Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapiro to the trial-by-fire friendship of O.J. Simpson and Robert Kardashian. In the video above, Yahoo TV asks the cast to explain how their characters get along… or don’t get along.  

John Travolta describes Shapiro and Cochran’s relationship as “two kings competing,” and Courtney B. Vance says the circus atmosphere surrounding the trial contributed to the clashing: “It’s the biggest trial of the century… there’s so much at stake.” Sarah Paulson says prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden were no match for the media-savvy Dream Team: “They were two people who went into battle without any armor.” And David Schwimmer remembers the intensity of Kardashian’s scenes with a suicidal O.J.: “To have to play those scenes was… just harrowing.”


But at least Cuba Gooding Jr. made a fun discovery about his co-star Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who plays O.J.’s Bronco-driving pal Al Cowlings: “This son of a bitch can drive! You could race cars! Backwards or forwards.” 

Tonight’s episode of FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story brings to vivid life the infamous “white Bronco chase,” which saw accused murderer O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings lead police on a low-speed tour of L.A.’s freeways while America ran to their TVs to watch.

If you don’t quite remember every twist and turn of the chase (or you weren’t alive yet to see it), we’ve designed a map that tracks the movements of Simpson’s Bronco on that fateful day of June 17, 1994:

Source: Los Angeles Times

The Bronco starts out parked at Robert Kardashian’s house (1) in Encino, where Simpson’s lawyer Robert Shapiro is negotiating for Simpson’s surrender to police. But Simpson fails to report to police at the agreed time, and when police arrive at the house at noon local time, Shapiro informs them that Simpson and Cowlings have left the house.


In the hours that follow, both police and Simpson’s lawyers are looking for the former football great. The LAPD officially announces that Simpson is a fugitive and D.A. Gil Garcetti vows that “we will find Mr. Simpson and bring him to justice.” Later, Shapiro holds his own press conference, where he pleads with Simpson to surrender and Kardashian reads a hand-written letter from Simpson. 

Meanwhile, Simpson reportedly heads for Ascension Cemetery (2) in Lake Forest, where Nicole Brown Simpson is buried. Finally, at 5:51 p.m., Simpson makes a 911 call from his cell phone, allowing authorities to trace his location to the 5 Freeway near the cemetery. Minutes later, the California Highway Patrol (3) begins pursuit.

Tanya Brown wants the public to realize that the brutal death of her sister, Nicole Brown Simpson, should not be considered for your TV viewing pleasure.

"People forget that two people got brutally murdered -- chopped to pieces -- and this is not entertainment," Tanya told ET. "This is not Hollywood."

ET spoke with Tanya, getting her take on American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, which follows the infamous murder case surrounding the deaths of O.J.'s ex-wife, Nicole, and waiter Ronald Lyle Goldman.

The 10-episode FX miniseries is based on Jeffrey Toobin's book, The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson, and tells the story of the trial from the perspective of the lawyers.

"It's kind of funny because you'd think that they would reach out and ask us what is the real Hollywood story, but nobody's reached out to us," Tanya said.

Keesha Sharp is joining her “People v. OJ Simpson” co-star Sterling K. Brown, as well as Chadwick Boseman and Josh Gad, in “Marshall,” a biopic about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, TheWrap has exclusively learned.

Reginald Hudlin will direct from a script by attorney Michael Koskoff and his son Jacob Koskoff. Hero Films is financing the project, which Paula Wagner is producing under her Chestnut Ridge Productions banner.

Before he reprises his “Captain America: Civil War” role of Black Panther, Boseman will play another hero — young lawyer Thurgood Marshall, who’s tasked with defending an African American man (Brown) accused of the rape and attempted murder of a wealthy white woman in Connecticut.

Marshall’s career-defining case, which helped set the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement, is set against a backdrop of Northern racism and anti-Semitism as the U.S. prepares to enter World War II.

Sharp will play Marshall’s wife, Buster.

The film, which boasts the support of Marshall’s family, will start production this month in Buffalo, New York.

Sharp recently parlayed her turn as Johnnie Cochran’s supportive wife in FX’s acclaimed miniseries “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson” into a regular role as Damon Wayans’ wife on Fox’s new “Lethal Weapon” TV series. She’s represented by Abrams Artist Agency and Genesis Entertainment.

Powered in part by its introduction of a raunchy, R-rated superhero, 21st Century Fox reported better than expected quarterly earnings Wednesday.

The media conglomerate’s 44-cents-a-share Third Quarter earnings topped analysts’ consensus estimate of 39 cents, but fell short of the 47 cents mark of last year.

Revenues also exceeded estimates, hitting $7.23 billion — compared to a projected $6.9 billion — and 6% ahead of the $6.84 billion for the same quarter in 2015.

The company attributed the gains in affiliate and advertising revenues in both its cable network programming and its television units. There was some drag from the impact of the strong dollar overseas — an estimated $204 million hit to revenues, or 3% of the total.

The company pegged “Deadpool” as one bright spot. The February release that broke superhero convention, with a raunchy, R-rated take on a lesser known figure from the Marvel comic universe. (One in the few in that category, also, outside the control of Disney’s Marvel Entertainment.) The Ryan Reynolds vehicle has hauled in $761 million worldwide, on a production budget of just $58 million and given hope that studios other than Disney can cash in on the comic book genre.”

It also cited the diversity of its TV operations for the success — with everything from FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” to expanded television sports offerings in India helping to increase revenues.

“We delivered significant revenue and earnings growth in the quarter on the strength of gains in affiliate and advertising revenues across our domestic and international cable portfolios as well as at our television segment, ” said executive chairmen Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch in a joint statement. They mentioned the diverse TV offerings and “our film studio, which broke global box office records and expanded a global franchise with ‘Deadpool,’ while delivering its second strongest quarterly earnings ever.”

21st Century Fox shares have declined more than 20% since the start of the year, closing Wednesday at $29.80.

The folks at FX have asked critics not to review tonight’s final episode of American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson until after it airs, but in a stunning rebuke to spoiler culture, I’ll take a daring stand and reveal this: In “The Verdict,” the show’s 10th hour airing Tuesday night, Simpson is found not guilty. 

The fact that there’s nothing to spoil, no cliffhanger to resolve, is one of the things that’s made this thing — what is it? A true-crime anthology series? A mini-series? An extended TV-movie? The best episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ever? — so impressive, so continually engaging. I’m old enough to remember a lot about the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, and Simpson’s subsequent murder trial, but like millions of viewers, rather than feeling bored by the dramatization of what I already know, I’ve been caught up in its dramatic momentum. 

A lot of the credit for this has to go to the almost crazily mixed-up acting styles of the main cast. Where Sarah Paulson has played it magnificently straight as prosecutor Marcia Clark, John Travolta has achieved a kind of Zen nuttiness as the serenely detached defense team attorney Robert Shapiro. Where Cuba Gooding, Jr., has wisely chosen not to do a full-on impression of Simpson, preferring instead to set himself the tricky task of presenting the athlete as a shut-down enigma, Sterling K. Brown seems to be channeling prosecutor Chris Darden’s complex inner workings — it’s a performance in which many conflicting ideas flicker across his face in any given scene.