Hollywood film for SA director
2006-09-28 06:49
Los Angeles - Oscar-winning South African director Gavin Hood is to direct a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon.
Hood's film Tsotsi won the best-foreign film Oscar this year.
Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal are reportedly in final negotiations to star in the espionage thriller Rendition.
Gyllenhaal, nominated for an Academy Award for playing a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, will star as a CIA analyst based in Cairo who witnesses the interrogation of a foreign national by Egyptian secret police.
Witherspoon, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Johnny Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, in Walk The Line at this year's Academy Awards, will play the pregnant wife of Gyllenhaal's character, the respected movie industry daily The Hollywood Reporter said.
The film is planning shoots in Los Angeles, Washington, Morocco and South Africa starting in November and is scheduled for release in 2007.