NEW: Idi Amin star to play Tutu. Really

Local actors seem to have again been snubbed in favour of Hollywood's Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Vince Vaughn, who will star in the lead roles in a film set in post-apartheid South Africa.

 



News broke yesterday that Whitaker will play Desmond Tutu in the long-awaited film The Archbishop and the Antichrist,an adaptation of Michael Ashton's play of the same name. It details Tutu's meetings with murderer Piet Blomfield, played by Vaughn, who seeks redemption for crimes committed while serving a life sentence.

The film shows conversations between Tutu, who headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Blomfield, an Afrikaner killer and former member of an apartheid death squad.


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