Danny Glover: Talks About Haiti & Toussaint LOuverture Film In 2006, Glover assembled a cast including Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mos Def, and planned to shoot his film in South Africa and Venezuela, thanks to $18m (£11m) from one of Glovers heroes, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Six years on, filming has not started. Well get the film done, says Glover. We came so close so many times, you could almost taste it, man. We came that close and were going to do it. Glover found out about the 1791-1804 Haitian revolution led by Toussaint LOuverture in the early 1970s when he read The Black Jacobins by CLR James, the Trinidadian socialist historian (and sometime Manchester Guardian cricket correspondent). By that time, Glover was already a protest veteran who, as a member of the black students union at San Francisco State University, had participated in a five-month strike to establish a black studies department. But it made an enormous impact on him. For more than 30 years, Glover has been trying to make a biopic about the leader of the Haitian revolution. True, the story of LOuverture has been told before, notably in a play by CLR James that was staged in Londons West End in 1936 starring Paul Robeson, and more recently in a French TV series starring Haitian actor Jimmy Jean-Louis. But Glover believes his treatment will be the first to have the epic scale these events require. But when will we see this directorial debut? In 2006, Glover assembled a cast including Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mos Def, and planned to shoot his film in South Africa and Venezuela, thanks to $18m (£11m) from one of Glovers heroes, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Six years on, filming has not started. Well get the film done, says Glover. We came so close so many times, you could almost taste it, man. We came that close and were going to do it.....theguardian/film/2012/may/18/danny-glover-good-cop
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