Los Angeles: Ava DuVernay, the director behind the Oscar-nominated Martin Luther King Jr biopic “Selma,” will write, produce and direct a feature film set in the time of Hurricane Katrina, the company backing the film said on Monday.

David Oyelowo, who plays King in “Selma,” is in talks to co-produce and star in the film, described by Participant Media as “a sweeping love story and complex murder mystery,” set during the time of the 2005 hurricane that slammed into the US Gulf Coast and deluged the city of New Orleans after levees broke.