River Road joins McQueen film

River Road originates onboard to create and finance Steve McQueen's "Twelve Years a Slave" with Plan B. Deal for Bill Pohlad's River Route to join "Slave" closed Monday. Summit will handle worldwide sales in the American Film Market. Michael Fassbender, who toplined McQueen's "Shame," signed on for "Twelve Years a Slave" two days ago. McQueen will direct from the script he co-authored with John Ridley. Chiwetel Ejiofor will even star within the true story of Solomon Northup, a NY citizen who had been kidnapped in Washington in 1841 and saved from the cotton plantation in Louisiana in 1853. Plan B's Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are going to produce the film, that is likely to start production early the coming year. CAA is organizing financing for that pic and representing U.S. privileges. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com