Fox Searchlight Takes Amma Asante's 'A United Kingdom'

David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star in the film, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival.

Fox Searchlight Pictures has acquired North American rights to Amma Asante's A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike.

The film, with a script by Guy Hibbert, is based on the true story of the forbidden love of King Seretse Khama of Botswana (Oyelowo) and Ruth Williams (Pike), a white woman from London, which caused an international uproar when they decided to marry in the late 1940s just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa.