Akin Omotoso, the filmmaker behind Disney Plus’ Giannis Antetokounmpo biopic “Rise,” has been attached to direct “The Plot to Save South Africa,” an adaptation of Justice Malala’s gripping book about a 1990s white supremacist plot that almost plunged the young democracy into civil war.
“The Plot to Save South Africa” will be produced by Johannesburg-based production outfit Ochre Moving Pictures, which signed a deal with Netflix last year to adapt multiple books for the streaming service alongside Omotoso. “Plot,” however, is not included in that deal, and is part of an existing partnership between Ochre and Omotoso that includes a crime drama adaptation of Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan’s novel “Pirates.”
The story begins in 1993, as Nelson Mandela has just been released after 27 years in prison and is in power-sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seems poised to fall, until a...
“The Plot to Save South Africa” will be produced by Johannesburg-based production outfit Ochre Moving Pictures, which signed a deal with Netflix last year to adapt multiple books for the streaming service alongside Omotoso. “Plot,” however, is not included in that deal, and is part of an existing partnership between Ochre and Omotoso that includes a crime drama adaptation of Nigerian playwright Femi Osofisan’s novel “Pirates.”
The story begins in 1993, as Nelson Mandela has just been released after 27 years in prison and is in power-sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seems poised to fall, until a...
- 2/29/2024
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
When Tim Bell died in London last summer, the media response was largely, somewhat sheepishly, polite: It was hard not to envision the ruthless political spin doctor still massaging his legacy from beyond the grave. “Irrepressible” was the first adjective chosen in the New York Times obituary. “He had far too few scruples about who he would represent,” tweeted journalist Robert Peston, “but he was the best company, always honest with me, enormous fun.” These were among several dedications to portray the former head of disgraced PR powerhouse Bell Pottinger — a man who offered his services to the likes of Margaret Thatcher and Augusto Pinochet, and met his professional downfall by masking South African governmental corruption with race-baiting fake news — as a kind of incorrigible rogue, as if his amoral taste for profoundly bad company amounted to mere rakish bravado.
This is not a trap, thankfully, that “Influence” falls into,...
This is not a trap, thankfully, that “Influence” falls into,...
- 2/2/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
There's an extraordinary old news clip in director Nicolas Rossier's documentary The Other Man: The wife of F.W. de Klerk, former president of South Africa, is shown at a public function with her husband. While he presses the flesh with his black supporters, she visibly recoils from their outstretched hands, pulling her own back against her body and giving a fake smile that bullhorns her disgust. It's a powerful moment in a layered film about a complex man. Rossier has crafted a tribute that doesn't shy away from withering critique of South Africa's last white president, who held office from 1989 until the country's first democratic elections in 1994. The film itself is solidly and conventionally crafted. Newsreels and stock footage alternate with fresh intervie...
- 2/4/2015
- Village Voice
Nelson Mandela on film and TV: From Sidney Poitier to Terrence Howard (photo: Sidney Poitier as Nelson Mandela in ‘Mandela and de Klerk’) (See previous post: "Nelson Mandela Movies: ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,’ ‘Invictus.’") As found on the IMDb, here are a handful of other narrative big-screen films featuring Nelson Mandela: Darrell Roodt’s Winnie Mandela (2011), with Jennifer Hudson in the title role and Terrence Howard as Nelson Mandela. Pete Travis’ Endgame (2009), with Clarke Peters’ Mandela as less a martyred saint than a skillful realpolitik negotiator. This political drama also features Chiwetel Ejiofor, William Hurt, Jonny Lee Miller, Mark Strong, and Derek Jacobi. Zola Maseko’s 1950s-set Drum (2004), in which Mandela is played — for a change — by a South African actor, Lindani Nkosi. As reported by Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian, British filmmaker Peter Kosminsky (White Oleander, Wuthering Heights) "got into hot water a couple of years ago...
- 12/7/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
After Nelson Mandela died on Dec. 5 at the age of 95, President Obama, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush, and a bevy of celebrities are remembering the beloved former South African president’s amazing legacy.
The world is heartbroken after Nelson Mandela sadly passed away on Dec.5, 2013 at home in Houghton, South Africa. The revolutionary leader — who had been suffering from a recurring lung infection and was frequently in the hospital over the last year — will never be forgotten. Nelson has touched so many lives, including that of former professional boxer Muhammad Ali, who released a touching statement praising the late leader on Dec. 5.
Nelson Mandela’s Death — President Obama & Celebrities React
Muhammad expressed his admiration for Nelson and the impact he had on the world, saying:
I am deeply saddened by the passing of Mr. Mandela. His was a life filled with purpose and hope; hope for himself, his country and the world.
The world is heartbroken after Nelson Mandela sadly passed away on Dec.5, 2013 at home in Houghton, South Africa. The revolutionary leader — who had been suffering from a recurring lung infection and was frequently in the hospital over the last year — will never be forgotten. Nelson has touched so many lives, including that of former professional boxer Muhammad Ali, who released a touching statement praising the late leader on Dec. 5.
Nelson Mandela’s Death — President Obama & Celebrities React
Muhammad expressed his admiration for Nelson and the impact he had on the world, saying:
I am deeply saddened by the passing of Mr. Mandela. His was a life filled with purpose and hope; hope for himself, his country and the world.
- 12/6/2013
- by tierneyhl
- HollywoodLife
So sad. The former South African president died on Dec. 5 at the age of 95. He will be greatly missed. The current president Jacob Zuma announced the passing at 8:50pm local time in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela sadly passed away on Dec.5, 2013 at home in Houghton, South Africa. He had been suffering from a recurring lung infection and was frequently in the hospital over the last year. The revolutionary leader fought passionately against the injustice of apartheid and later dedicated himself to bringing the South African nation together peacefully after apartheid was abolished. He leaves behind an incredible legacy and will not be forgotten.
Nelson Mandela Dead — ‘Will Sleep for Eternity’
In an interview for the documentary, Mandela (1996), Nelson said, “Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I...
Nelson Mandela sadly passed away on Dec.5, 2013 at home in Houghton, South Africa. He had been suffering from a recurring lung infection and was frequently in the hospital over the last year. The revolutionary leader fought passionately against the injustice of apartheid and later dedicated himself to bringing the South African nation together peacefully after apartheid was abolished. He leaves behind an incredible legacy and will not be forgotten.
Nelson Mandela Dead — ‘Will Sleep for Eternity’
In an interview for the documentary, Mandela (1996), Nelson said, “Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I...
- 12/6/2013
- by HL Intern
- HollywoodLife
var brightcovevideoid = '2898010499001'; Nelson Mandela, who heroically symbolized the longstanding fight against South Africa's white supremacist government - and rose from its victimized prisoner to his nation's powerful and compassionate leader - has died, according to South African President Jacob Zuma. He was 95. "My Fellow South Africans, our beloved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding President of our democratic nation has departed. He passed on peacefully in the company of his family around 20h50 on the 5th of December 2013," Zuma said in a statement. "He is now resting. He is now at peace. Our nation has lost its greatest son.
- 12/5/2013
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Nelson Mandela, the former South African President and icon of the country’s anti-apartheid movement, died on Thursday. He was 95.
Nelson Mandela Dies
Over the last several years, Mandela was frequently hospitalized for health issues relating to a chronic lung infection. Mandela was released from a Pretoria hospital on Sept. 1 after an 85-day stay. At the time, his condition was still listed as critical, and it was reported that he’d continue receiving treatment at his home outside of Johannesburg.
"He probably will be remembered both inside and outside South Africa as a political saint," said Michael Parks, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his covering of Mandela and South Africa's in the height of the apartheid struggle. "He had flaws that he had to overcome. He had a temper he had to deal with. He had to deal with what was going to be life imprisonment. Not all his decisions were great decisions,...
Nelson Mandela Dies
Over the last several years, Mandela was frequently hospitalized for health issues relating to a chronic lung infection. Mandela was released from a Pretoria hospital on Sept. 1 after an 85-day stay. At the time, his condition was still listed as critical, and it was reported that he’d continue receiving treatment at his home outside of Johannesburg.
"He probably will be remembered both inside and outside South Africa as a political saint," said Michael Parks, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his covering of Mandela and South Africa's in the height of the apartheid struggle. "He had flaws that he had to overcome. He had a temper he had to deal with. He had to deal with what was going to be life imprisonment. Not all his decisions were great decisions,...
- 12/5/2013
- Uinterview
Suri Cruise is far away from the courtroom drama involving her father, Tom, who is suing a tabloid over their cover story that claimed he "abandoned" her. Suri and her mom, Katie Holmes, took a trip Thursday to the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa, where Holmes is filming the movie The Giver.The look-alike mother-daughter team appeared unfettered by the lawsuit thousands of miles away while eating their lunch alfresco. Suri, 7½, playfully offered some of her fish-and-chips to a statue of the former Sa President, F.W. de Klerk. Back in the U.S., Tom's explanation as to...
- 11/8/2013
- by Sheila Cosgrove Baylis
- PEOPLE.com
Once again, Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise make for quite the pretty pair. With legal drama shadowing Tom Cruise back home n the form of a deposition in which he was grilled about the role Scientology played in his divorce from Holmes, mother and daughter were busy enjoying the sights today in Cape Town, South Africa, where Holmes has been shooting The Giver with Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges. She and her 7-year-old daughter played tourists Thursday, visiting the Two Oceans Aquarium and chowing down on fish and chips in Nobel Square. At one point, Suri adorably appeared to be offering her leftovers to the bronze statue of former South African President F.W. de Klerk that holds court on the V&A...
- 11/8/2013
- E! Online
Katie Holmes took a break from the set of The Giver to take her daughter, Suri, out for lunch outside the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa. The mother-daughter pair snacked on takeout meals while sitting on the steps outside the aquarium, and at one point, Suri offered her meal to a statue of F.W. de Klerk, the former president of South Africa. Katie and Suri have been lying low in South Africa while the actress works on her latest project alongside Taylor Swift and Alexander Skarsgard. She has been sharing lots of snaps of her fun time on set on her newly created Twitter account. Meanwhile, Tom Cruise has been in the news back home in the States. He recently filed new documents in his $50 million lawsuit against a publishing company for its claim that he had abandoned Suri after his split from Katie in June 2012. "I...
- 11/7/2013
- by Maria Mercedes Lara
- Popsugar.com
Taylor Kitsch recently celebrated the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his new movie The Bang Bang Club, writer/director Steven Silver’s drama about a group of young journalists covering the fall of Apartheid and the widespread chaos led by supporters of President F.W. de Klerk in 1994 South Africa. The 30-year-old Vancouver native and star of the TV drama Friday Night Lights played Kevin Carter, a Bang Bang Club photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize but also battled depression due to the strain of his work.
- 5/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Taylor Kitsch recently celebrated the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his new movie The Bang Bang Club, writer/director Steven Silver’s drama about a group of young journalists covering the fall of Apartheid and the widespread chaos led by supporters of President F.W. de Klerk in 1994 South Africa. The 30-year-old Vancouver native and star of the TV drama Friday Night Lights played Kevin Carter, a Bang Bang Club photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize but also battled depression due to the strain of his work.
- 5/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Taylor Kitsch recently celebrated the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his new movie The Bang Bang Club, writer/director Steven Silver’s drama about a group of young journalists covering the fall of Apartheid and the widespread chaos led by supporters of President F.W. de Klerk in 1994 South Africa. The 30-year-old Vancouver native and star of the TV drama Friday Night Lights played Kevin Carter, a Bang Bang Club photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize but also battled depression due to the strain of his work.
- 5/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Taylor Kitsch recently celebrated the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his new movie The Bang Bang Club, writer/director Steven Silver’s drama about a group of young journalists covering the fall of Apartheid and the widespread chaos led by supporters of President F.W. de Klerk in 1994 South Africa. The 30-year-old Vancouver native and star of the TV drama Friday Night Lights played Kevin Carter, a Bang Bang Club photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize but also battled depression due to the strain of his work.
- 5/1/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
There's a truly amazing, insightful, and thoughtful story surrounding the lives of the Bang Bang Club -- four photographers working in South Africa during the Apartheid period between 1990 and 1994 -- one that is anguishing, fascinating, and ultimately, a real goddamn bummer. It's a story that soars with thematic conflict, about the violence between the Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and President F.W. de Klerk's supporters, the struggles between documenting and exploitation, and between art and atrocity. Unfortunately, that story is nowhere to be found in Steven Silver's crushingly awful Bang Bang Club, an inert, atrociously acted, pitifully directed film based on Greg Marinovich and João Silva's book, The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War.
Bang Bang Club is the worst kind of film, one that takes all the drama out of a naturally gripping story, reducing it to a disorganized mess of lifeless snapshots weaved...
Bang Bang Club is the worst kind of film, one that takes all the drama out of a naturally gripping story, reducing it to a disorganized mess of lifeless snapshots weaved...
- 4/28/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
Movie review of 'The Bang Bang Club' - Tense film features heroic Ryan Phillippe and suspenseful race politics and action. The recent deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington (who also co- directed the film Restrepo) and Chris Hondros in Libya serve as a powerful reminder of the risks photographers face in their line of work. The same is true for writer/director Steven Silver’s drama The Bang Bang Club, a new release from Tribeca Film, about the young photojournalists covering the fall of Apartheid and the widespread chaos led by supporters of President F.W. de Klerk in 1994 South Africa. Based on the 2001 book by Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich, Silver makes a solid dramatic feature debut after a career making documentary films. The gritty realism of the film’s suspenseful scenes, as the Bang Bang photographers dodge bullets in order to get their stories, reflects Silver’s experience in non-fiction storytelling.
- 4/21/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Movie review of 'The Bang Bang Club' - Tense film features heroic Ryan Phillippe and suspenseful race politics and action. The recent deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington (who also co- directed the film Restrepo) and Chris Hondros in Libya serve as a powerful reminder of the risks photographers face in their line of work. The same is true for writer/director Steven Silver’s drama The Bang Bang Club, a new release from Tribeca Film, about the young photojournalists covering the fall of Apartheid and the widespread chaos led by supporters of President F.W. de Klerk in 1994 South Africa. Based on the 2001 book by Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich, Silver makes a solid dramatic feature debut after a career making documentary films. The gritty realism of the film’s suspenseful scenes, as the Bang Bang photographers dodge bullets in order to get their stories, reflects Silver’s experience in non-fiction storytelling.
- 4/21/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Movie review of 'The Bang Bang Club' - Tense film features heroic Ryan Phillippe and suspenseful race politics and action. The recent deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington (who also co- directed the film Restrepo) and Chris Hondros in Libya serve as a powerful reminder of the risks photographers face in their line of work. The same is true for writer/director Steven Silver’s drama The Bang Bang Club, a new release from Tribeca Film, about the young photojournalists covering the fall of Apartheid and the widespread chaos led by supporters of President F.W. de Klerk in 1994 South Africa. Based on the 2001 book by Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich, Silver makes a solid dramatic feature debut after a career making documentary films. The gritty realism of the film’s suspenseful scenes, as the Bang Bang photographers dodge bullets in order to get their stories, reflects Silver’s experience in non-fiction storytelling.
- 4/21/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Movie review of 'The Bang Bang Club' - Tense film features heroic Ryan Phillippe and suspenseful race politics and action. The recent deaths of photojournalists Tim Hetherington (who also co- directed the film Restrepo) and Chris Hondros in Libya serve as a powerful reminder of the risks photographers face in their line of work. The same is true for writer/director Steven Silver’s drama The Bang Bang Club, a new release from Tribeca Film, about the young photojournalists covering the fall of Apartheid and the widespread chaos led by supporters of President F.W. de Klerk in 1994 South Africa. Based on the 2001 book by Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich, Silver makes a solid dramatic feature debut after a career making documentary films. The gritty realism of the film’s suspenseful scenes, as the Bang Bang photographers dodge bullets in order to get their stories, reflects Silver’s experience in non-fiction storytelling.
- 4/21/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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