Cinema Science

I thought this had already been announced and I had posted something about it before but here it is becoming official so I will post it again. Matt Damon will star alongside Morgan Freeman in The Human Factor, the Clint Eastwood-directed movie about the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Damon will play rugby star and South African team captain Francois Pienaar, who along with former South African president Nelson Mandela (Freeman) created an event that gave the country's whites and blacks a common cause to rally around as the country healed from years of apartheid. The film is an adaptation of the John Carlin book The Human Factor: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Changed the World. Immediately after the fall of apartheid, when Mandela was finally released from prison and became president, the majority of South Africa's blacks viewed their rugby team as a symbol of exclusion. But with his country set to host the World Cup, Mandela decided to get behind the team, and when the tournament finally started, black citizens were rooting alongside their white countrymen as their team won in overtime against New Zealand to capture the Cup.