Not exactly the kind of news you want hear about the project, but still some noteworthy info worth sharing on the Toussaint Louverture film that Danny Glover has been working on for what feels like a really long time…
Not much has been reported on its progress in awhile, and, as far as I’m concerned the project is likely dead, until I hear otherwise.
However, thanks to Bombastic Element’s blog, I learned that Med Hondo, Mauritanian director, producer, screenwriter & actor, claims that Glover’s Louverture project is in fact based on his (Hondo’s) own original screenplay, and he actually wrote a damning open letter to Glover expressing his concerns.
The intriguing short version of the story goes… Hondo says he’d been working on a biopic of Toussaint Louverture when he first met Danny Glover in 1991. Glover, taken by the project, made it known to Hondo that...
Not much has been reported on its progress in awhile, and, as far as I’m concerned the project is likely dead, until I hear otherwise.
However, thanks to Bombastic Element’s blog, I learned that Med Hondo, Mauritanian director, producer, screenwriter & actor, claims that Glover’s Louverture project is in fact based on his (Hondo’s) own original screenplay, and he actually wrote a damning open letter to Glover expressing his concerns.
The intriguing short version of the story goes… Hondo says he’d been working on a biopic of Toussaint Louverture when he first met Danny Glover in 1991. Glover, taken by the project, made it known to Hondo that...
- 9/8/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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