Jodie Foster to Direct Sugar Kings

Jodie Foster will direct and star in Sugar Kings for Universal Pictures.

The story is about a young lawyer who teams with a veteran attorney to fight the sugar companies who are taking advantage of migrant workers.

Sugar Kings, written by Ned Zeman and Daniel Barnz, will be produced by Jane Rosenthal and Robert DeNiro's company Tribeca Films.

Jodie Foster can be seen next in the suspense film Flightplan,and also in the Spike Lee film The Inside Man, with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen.