Anthony Mackie is planning a Jesse Owens biopic.

The Captain America: The Winter Soldier star wants to produce and star in a film about the Olympic gold medal-winning legend, reports Deadline.

US sprinter Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, humiliating Adolf Hitler and his claims of German racial superiority.

Hitler had attempted to ban black and Jewish athletes from the games, but backed down in the face of a threatened boycott.

Owens also faced prejudice in his home country.

Mackie has teamed with his We Are Marshall writer Jamie Linden and writer George Olson in the hopes of fast-tracking the movie.

The film is one of several projects about Owens in the works, including one by Disney and another from The King's Speech writer David Seidler.

Mackie was previously attached to an Owens biopic in 2006. He recently signed back on for revived Jimi Hendrix biopic Jimi.