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Denzel Washington to Direct The Great Debators
By James Wray Aug 19, 2004, 16:30 GMT
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Washinton is not directing the biopic |
Instead directing "The Great Debaters," a movie based on a true story about an all-black high school debate team in 1935.
As for the Sammy Davis Jr. movie, Washington will serve in a producer capacity.
"Brian Grazer and I bought the rights to a great book and we're developing the material," Washington said. "I guess because it was in the paper, everybody thinks I'm directing it." he told them.
That book is Wil Haygood's biography, "In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr." Washington has hired Haygood to write the first draft of the script, which will start with Davis at age 4, when he first began singing and dancing with his father on the vaudeville circuit.
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