Invictus Trailer

Invictus, based on my book Playing the Enemy, which will have its world premiere in the US on 11 December 2009. Theres a whole long story as to how this came about, but the key point is that I met Morgan Freeman by absolute chance in a small town in Mississippi in June 2006 and it all took off from there. He had been wanting to play Mandela for several years but had not found a filmable story. This, it turned out, was it. Five months later we closed a deal, a screenwriter called Tony Peckham came over from California to pick my brains for a week. The script he came up with was great, faithful to Mandela and to the spirit of the epic political transition over which he presided,. Morgan Freeman loved it. So did his pal Clint Eastwood. Warner Bros too. Freeman plays Mandela, Matt Damon plays the South African rugby captain, Francois Pienaar, and Eastwood directed. The film was shot entirely on location in South Africa. Shooting lasted two months, ending in early May 2009.

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Film & Animation

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• mandela
• john carlin
• south africa
• clint eastwood
• matt damon
• playing the enemy