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Morgan Freeman to play Nelson Mandela
By M&C Movie News Jun 22, 2007, 7:57 GMT
Academy Award winner actor Morgan Freeman attends the Sithengi film and television market 2006 at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday 16 November 2006. Freeman has been asked to play the role of Nelson Mandela in the film adaptation of \'Long Walk to Freedom\'. EPA/PETER BAUERMEISTER
Morgan Freeman’s Revelation shingle is set to produce ‘The Human Factor’, a drama set in South Africa after the fall of apartheid.
Freeman and his production partner Lori McCreary will produce with Mace Neufeld from a script by South African writer Anthony Peckham (Don't Say a Word).
Script is based on the John Carlin book “The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the World.”
Freeman will star as former South African President Nelson Mandela in 1995, when South Africa hosted the Rugby World Cup which Mandela used to help end decades of mistrust and hatred between whites and blacks.
Freeman and McCreary traveled to South Africa last year to discuss the project with Mandela.
"I have known Nelson Mandela personally for quite some time, and am continually in awe of his enormous presence in the world," Freeman is quoted as saying. "The opportunity to portray him in this film is a great honor."
No director or other casting was announced.
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