Movement on a project first announced in 2012, although casting hadn’t been shored-up at the time.
Announced today, Forest Whitaker has signed on to play another prominent African figure – this time it’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu – in a project by Roland Joffe, titled "The Archbishop and the Antichrist." He’ll be joined by Vince Vaughn in the film, which is based on the play by Michael Ashton, and centers on the Truth and Reconciliation Hearings – a post-apartheid commissioning in which victims took an active role in the judicial process (called on to give accounts of the gross human rights violations they were subjected to), while offenders were encouraged to take…
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