NEW YORK (AP) — Having already played Jackie Robinson and James Brown, Chadwick Boseman will tackle another icon in a courtroom thriller about Thurgood Marshall.

Chadwick Boseman, who died of cancer last summer, has won a Golden Globe for his performance as Levee in Netflix's adaptation of August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." ...

Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall in the movie “Marshall,” directed by Reginald Hudlin. Barry Wetcher / Open Road Films ...

⬩ We can never know the authentic version of a person, whether it’s Jackie Robinson or Thurgood Marshall or Chadwick Boseman costumed as T’Challa.

On that note, let’s move onto the roles — Robinson, James Brown, and Thurgood Marshall — that made Boseman a superhero of starring in historical biopics. Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013) Warner ...

In 2017, prior to his earth-shattering role in Black Panther, Boseman played Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court’s first Black justice, in the biopic Marshall.

From there, he was cast in two more biopics, playing two other Black Americans of colossal historical importance: James Brown in Get On Up (2014) and Thurgood Marshall in Marshall (2017).

We believed Boseman as the confident and talented and dedicated young Thurgood Marshall circa 1940 — an NAACP lawyer defending persons of color wrongly accused of crimes, telling one clients ...

Chadwick Boseman stars as the law-wielding hero in 'Marshall,' depicting a little known case early in Thurgood Marshall's career ...

Boseman discusses his unique process for playing Jackie Robinson, James Brown and now Thurgood Marshall, and they informed Black Panther.