It has been confirmed that a movie based on the life of Jamaica’s first national hero, Marcus Garvey has been commissioned and is about to go into production.

The movie project is being funded by Amazon Studios with the script for Marked Man written by British actor/playwright, Kwame Kwei-Armah. Marked Man will be directed by Nigerian filmmaker, Andrew Dosunmu with Winston Duke, the Tobago-born actor, who broke into global fame playing M’baku in the American blockbuster film, The Black Panther playing Garvey in the movie.

Duke, whose acting credits also include Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame have been living in the United States since moving there with his family from the twin-island republic at age nine.

The movie will be based on Colin Grant Garvey biography, titled Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. He was the leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which sought to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide.

 Marked Man will be set in the early 1920s when Garvey was at the height of his powers and living in Harlem, where he was a leader of a cultural renaissance. The movie will trace the activities of a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigations and infiltrates the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which Garvey founded in Jamaica in 1914, and the African Communities League.

The movie goes up to the point where Jamaican Pan-African leader was eventually charged with mail fraud in 1923 and sentenced to five years in prison. He was released after serving 33 months in federal penitentiary in Georgia. Garvey was deported to Jamaica in 1927 and died in London at age 52 in 1940. In 1969, Jamaica’s government made Marcus Garvey the country’s first national hero.  Marcus Moziah Garvey was born on August 17, 1887, in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica.