All Black movie directed by Clint Eastwood
03 Sep 2008
Well known actor and rugby fan Clint Eastwood is looking for actors to play the parts of New Zealand's All Blacks in a film of the 1995 World Cup.
Eastwood is directing next year's filming of the match which was said to have changed the world. The film is an adaptation of British journalist John Carlin's book on the New Zealand versus South Africa rugby match - Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation.
Matt Damon named
The New York Times has reported that actor Matt Damon, who played a flanker in Martin Scorcese's Oscar-winner The Departed, is set to play Springbok captain Francois Pienaar. But as yet no one has been named to play All Black captain Sean Fitzpatrick.
Morgan Freeman to play Mandela
Carlin has sold the film rights to actor Morgan Freeman, who has had a script, The Human Factor, written by South African Anthony Peckham.
Freeman will play Nelson Mandela, the new South African president who used the rugby world cup for a symbolic healing of the wounds caused by apartheid, just a year after the country's first democratic elections.
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