Ving Rhames will produce "3/5 of a Man," a low-budget film adaptation of Michael Henry Brown's Off Broadway play. Story revolves around Nat Turner and the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia reports Variety.

Anthony Mackie ("Freedomland") will star as Turner, Rhames as his best friend, Hark. John Amos, Beverly Todd, Zeljko Ivanek, Peter Dinklage, Tiny Lister, Michael Taliferro and Dana Delany are also set, according to Rhames. Brown wrote the script.

The title comes from language in the Constitution that counted each enslaved black man as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of determining Southern representation in Congress.. Turner led the most successful slave rebellion ever but was ultimately lynched along with many other slaves.

Rhames will follow with "King of the Avenue," a Faustian contemporary horror/drama written and directed by Ryan Combs. He'll star in it with hip-hop star Young Buck.