David Oyelowo is a Yadacity tip

YADACITY IS CALLING ACTOR David Oyelowo

Award winning director Lee Daniels with five films under his belt and counting
is well on his way to becoming legend.

Yadacity note, he's the first African American to be nominated for a Director's Guild Award. He is the second to receive an Academy Award nomination for directing.

His new project SELMA, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has found the perfect actor to play Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.. It’s actor David Oyelowo from the U.K.

Also on board is Hugh Jackman playing a racist sheriff

As much as we know, the film revolves around the historic marches staged by King in 1965 in Selma, Alabama. The part of Alabama Governor George Wallace remains up for grabs.

Oyelowo, who was last seen opposite Jill Scott in HBO's series 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' was also in the TV version of 'A Raisin in the Sun' with Sean Combs and Sanaa Lathan.

This brother is on a role; you can see his dazzle playing Muddy Waters in 'Who Do You Love?' and stars in George Lucas' 'Red Tails' with Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr.