Clint Eastwood To Direct Morgan Freeman In Nelson Mandela Film: The Human Factor?
By: Lucy | September 25, 2007
A film about how the 1995 World Cup helped restore post-apartheid race relations in South Africa is hurriedly becoming a major film event. Morgan Freeman is set to play Nelson Mandela in an adaptation of the John Carlin book ‘The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the World’.
Warner Bros. looks likely to finance the picture and Clint Eastwood is eyeing up to direct. Matt Damon is also in talks to join the film as the captain of the Springboks.
Morgan Freeman and Revelations partner Lori McCreary are producing the film which Mace Neufeld and Anthony Peckham writing the script. Morgan Freeman McCreary flew to South Africa last spring in order to get Mandela’s blessing.
The film begins right after the fall of apartheid, and after Mandela was released from a long imprisonment and became the president of South Africa. Mandela is said to have recognized the significance when South Africa was selected to hose the 1995 Rugby World Cup – the country had been barred from competing since the 1980’sd due to the apartheid.
Clint Eastwood was bought to the project by Freeman, who starred in Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ and ‘Million Dollar Baby’.
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