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8 October 2008 1:36 PM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Louis Armstrong (left) and Forest Whitaker (right) I still haven't seen Clint Eastwood's Bird in which Forest Whitaker stars as Charlie Parker, a film he won the Cannes Film Festival best actor award for as well as earned a Golden Globe nomination, but it remains in my Netflix queue. I hope to get to it some time soon as it seems Whitaker is returning to the world of jazz to play yet another icon, only this time he will be directing as well. Ben Child at The Guardian reports that Forest Whitaker will play Louis Armstrong in the first Armstrong estate officially sanctioned biopic of the great jazz singer and trumpet player which he will also direct. The film will be called What a Wonderful World based on Armstrong's well known song and will chronicle the musician's life from his impoverished early days in New Orleans to his death

Brad Brevet

8 October 2008 6:02 AM, PDT | From Spout.com | See recent Spout news

Julie Taymor is directing a film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, which will star plenty of Oscar-caliber performers, including Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou and possibly Geoffrey Rush (Also: Russell Brand as the jester, Trinculo!). Taymor's version should be interesting considering her postmodern take on the Bard's Titus Andronicus for her film debut, and she's already revealed one twist by casting Mirren in the lead, as a gender-reversed "Prospera". But I bet it still won't out-arthouse Peter Greenaway's film version of the play. Forest Whitaker, who has already portrayed jazz saxaphonist Charlie Parker on the big screen, w ...

Christopher Campbell

2 articles from 2008