I don't know if Chadwick Boseman can leap tall buildings in a single bound, but the superman of biopics certainly has a knack for towering figures. Jackie Robinson , Godfather of Soul James Brown , and now Thurgood Marshall, the crusading civil rights attorney and first African American to serve on the Supreme Court. Marshall , though, is not precisely a biopic – it concentrates strictly on an early episode in Marshall's career, when he was a barnstorming soloist for the NAACP, sent throughout the country to represent defendants whose cases could expose racial bias in the legal system - the more sensational, the better.
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