Cinema Science

Morgan Freeman has been attached to play Nelson Mandela for as long as I can remember and now it looks like he might get one of his old working partners to finally make the movie. Clint Eastwood is considering directing The Human Factor, which is about how the 1995 Rugby World Cup helped heal post-apartheid race relations in South Africa. Set immediately after the fall of apartheid, when Mandela was released from prison and became president, the film is an adaptation of the John Carlin book The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the World. Matt Damon is considering a role as the rugby team's captain. Morgan and Eastwood previously two worked together previously on the Eastwood-directed Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. Freeman and McCreary traveled to South Africa last spring to get Mandela's blessing on the project. Eastwood next directs The Changeling, which stars Angelina Jolie