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Morgan Freeman to play Nelson Mandela in new movie
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-06-23 08:31
LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman and his film production
company on Friday unveiled plans to make a movie starring Freeman as
former South African president and Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.
The film, to be called "The Human Factor," will be based on an upcoming
book "The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the
World" by journalist and author John Carlin.
"I have known Nelson Mandela personally for quite some time, and am
continually in awe of his enormous presence in the world. The opportunity
to portray him in this film is a great honor," Freeman said in a
statement.
Revelations Entertainment, the company run by Freeman and business
partner Lori McCreary, is expected to begin production in early 2008. A
theater release date has not yet been set for the independently made
movie.
"The Human Factor" will look at Mandela's public and private life in the
first year of his presidency, when South Africa was just emerging from
years of apartheid.
Mandela, now 88, was a long-time anti-apartheid activist who was jailed
by the former white-ruled government of South Africa early in his life
and served 27 years before being released in 1990.
Mandela went on to lead the country when apartheid ended, and his policy
of reconciliation helped earn him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
Freeman earned an Oscar as best supporting actor for his 2004 role in
Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning boxing drama "Million Dollar Baby."
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