Jason Mitchell to play Sean Bell in new biopic “50 Shots”

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Actor Jason Mitchell will portray Sean Bell in a biopic, TMZ reports.

Bell was an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by the police hours before his 2006 wedding.

Jason Mitchell to play Sean Bell in biopic

Mitchell will take on the role of Bell in the film 50 Shots.

Jason Mitchell (Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jason_Mitchell_(28577477196).jpg)

50 shots reference the 50 bullets that police shot into Bell in Jamaica, Queens.

What happened to Sean Bell

Sean Bell, who was 23, had just wrapped up his bachelor party with his dad and two friends when cops shot up their car.

Undercover cops who were surveilling a nearby strip club thought the men were armed, but they weren’t.

In 2010, Bell’s family won a settlement against the city for $7 million, but the three cops who shot Bell were fully acquitted.

Prepping the movie

Mitchell first read for the role of an undercover cop, but was later asked to play Bell’s part instead.

The movie, which has been in development for three years, will be filmed in Queens New York.