ATLANTA — A group of Black residents have filed a lawsuit claiming racial discrimination in a housing development associated with the Georgia film studio used to shoot well-known movies and television shows. Marvel’s “Captain America: New World Order” is expected to start production at Trilith Studios next year.

The Town at Trilith sits across the street from the studios. Five current and former residents allege they experienced racial discrimination by management and faced retaliation when they tried to raise concerns, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday, which alleges violations of the Georgia Fair Housing Act.

The Town at Trilith and Trilith Studios are presented as being “an open inclusive, diverse community for all types of people,” the lawsuit says. But the “lived reality at Trilith has been one of racial discrimination.”

Lawyer Michael Jo'el Smith said his clients want to expose the hypocrisy of the studio.

“Trilith gives lip service to say they value these principles of diversity that attract these Black stories to be produced at their studio, while at the same time not caring about the actual lives of Black people that are there living in that town,” Smith told The Associated Press.