Invictus (formerly: The Human Factor): Production Information & News.

[higashimori]

   Thanks, Dan !   That is very nice to know that the workaholic Clint began work again !     

     Those photos are very interesting.   

[KC]

Rope of Silicon link
First Looks at Clint Eastwood’s Untitled Nelson Mandela Feature
Damon gets his kicks in South Africa
BY: Brad Brevet | March 15th 2009 at 2:42 AM

There's a typo in the quote as Dan posted it (since corrected on the site). It should be "1995 Rugby World Cup."

[Aline]

Very nice pics. This will be the first movie with Matt Damon I might watch.

Clint has a fascination with Africa or what?

[Lin Sunderland]

I am really looking forward to this movie.   Nelson Mandela and my all time favourite sport.  Rugby Union.   I wonder what Clint thought of the game and the rules.   

There's a typo in the quote as Dan posted it (since corrected on the site). It should be "1995 Rugby World Cup."

It really should read 1995 Rugby Union World Cup. There is also Rugby League, a totally different game!!  (agree SK???)

[The Schofield Kid]

It really should read 1995 Rugby Union World Cup. There is also Rugby League, a totally different game!!  (agree SK???)

Yeah, rugby league was so much better. Now they're both a bore.

[higashimori]

　This info from contactmusic but it is to be interested .

       

   " Clint Eastwood film lands familiar name "

      http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i9195894d101675e3bf7e4ff845a7d723

     

Director's son Scott joins Nelson Mandela drama
By Jay A. Fernandez

March 17, 2009, 11:00 PM ET
Like father, cast son.

Scott Eastwood has nabbed a role in the untitled Nelson Mandela drama being directed by his father, Clint, for Warner Bros. and Spyglass Entertainment.

The younger Eastwood joins Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in the real-life story of how Mandela, as the new South African president, worked with the captain of the national rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite the country after apartheid. Eastwood will play a member of Pienaar's team, which makes a run at the 1995 World Cup Championship.

South African writer Anthony Peckham adapted the screenplay from John Carlin's book, "Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation."

Clint Eastwood, Lori McCreary, Robert Lorenz and Mace Neufeld are producing the film. Freeman, Tim Moore, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum are exec producing.

Scott Eastwood, whose credit often reads "Scott Reeves," also had roles in his father's films "Gran Torino" and "Flags of Our Fathers." The actor, repped by UTA and Joanne Horowitz 

 I hope that Scott gives better performance than the last movie and think that he should study more performances.   Anyway he has enough time to do it !   

[KC]

Didn't you like his performance in Gran Torino, Higashimori? I thought he was just fine.

Here's the picture from the Hollywood Reporter site ... that's Scott on the left, I suppose I should add!

[right turn clyde]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7950488.stm

[right turn clyde]

The film might have a hazy look to it !

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2326021.ece

[The Schofield Kid]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7950488.stm

Thanks rtc, but Higgy posted practically the same story two posts above yours.

[Aline]

Didn't you like his performance in Gran Torino, Higashimori? I thought he was just fine.

Here's the picture from the Hollywood Reporter site ... that's Scott on the left, I suppose I should add!

He has a big resemblance to Clint even more than Kyle!

[Lin Sunderland]

He has a big resemblance to Clint even more than Kyle!

I think Kyle looks more like Clint and there are better pictures than the one I have posted that make me see Kyle as Clint's son.   I think I would not have noticed a likeness between Scott and Clint if I had seen him billed as Scott Reeves.    Sorry but that is my opinion only.

[KC]

Off topic, but I'm wondering who the young man standing front and center in the Rails and Ties premiere is.

[Doug]

Off topic, but I'm wondering who the young man standing front and center in the Rails and Ties premiere is.

I'd say Miles Heizer, who starred in the film.

[KC]

Oh yeah, I saw the movie, and I forgot what the kid looked like.

[Richelieu]

Hi all

Just to give you some news from Cape Town....
A friend told me about twee weeks ago that Morgan Freeman was seen with Francois Pienaar at a Stormers training session.
The Stormers is the local Cape Town rugby team that play in the Super 14 competition.
The local press showed quite a few photos of Matt Damon and Francois Pienaar taking part in the Argus cycle tour competition.
I must say, Matt Damon is very small...Francois Pienaar is huge....somenone made the remark that if Damon plays Pienaar then the rest of the cast will surely have to be midgets.....
Matt Damon is not a very popular choice for Pienaar around here. Hopefully Clint will use some smart camera angles or CGI to make him appear big. Or cast midgets.
Morgan Freeman gave a brief interview on a local Cape Town radio station.
Clint is very quiet, no interviews, that I've heard, no pics in the paper.
We have had a lot of veld fires in the Western Cape area since February, it's very hot and dry here.
My wife emailed the local radio station, Kfm, and told them that it has been my life long dream to meet Clint and that she wondered if they could arrange a meeting. She hasn't heard a thing and it seems that my best chance to meet my hero, here in my hometown, is slipping out of reach.
There was a call for extras as they were shooting at Newlands rugby stadium this week, from Monday to Thursday, starting at 07h30 each day.
Pay is R300 per day and the email I got said to 'bring all your friends along', so it's obviously for crowd scenes.
Unfortunately I have been out of town for work, by the way, I saw Francois Pienaar at the airport.
Apparently Matt Damon injured himself, kicking the ground and not the ball. This has been getting a lot of laughs around the offices and even fuelling the fact more that he is not a good choice for the role. It makes him seem soft. If I were the film company I would have kept that news out of the press...

[KC]

Thanks for the update, Richelieu! I hope you get to meet Clint after all!

[higashimori]

   " Life on the set with Clint Eastwood, by Welsh actor "

         http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/03/22/life-on-the-set-with-clint-eastwood-by-welsh-actor-91466-23201827/

         Mar 22 2009 by Robin Turner, Wales On Sunday

         

WELSH actor Julian Lewis Jones currently filming the Nelson Mandela-rugby movie The Human Factor in South Africa, has paid tribute to the “coolness” of the film’s iconic director Clint Eastwood.

He said the veteran double Oscar- winner was nothing like his famous “Dirty Harry” screen persona.

He said: “He’s a lovely man. He’s gentle and quiet on set and yet everything goes like clockwork.

“He’s so slick, everything goes so fast but he’s still very relaxed, but he’s in charge and he’s very hands on. A lot of people call him ‘Boss’ on set and understandably so. He’s such a cool guy. He expects everyone on set to be prepared and that is really refreshing.

“Everyone takes the view that ‘if the boss is happy I’m happy’.”

Scarlets fan Julian, 40, who has appeared in Welsh dramas like Pobol y Cwm, Caerdydd and Belonging, was handpicked by screen legend Eastwood, 78, to play the head of Nelson Mandela’s Afrikaans bodyguard.

The film is based on the unifying effect of South Africa’s 1995 Rugby World Cup victory.

The image of then-president Mandela clad in a Springboks jersey presenting the Webb Ellis trophy to Pienaar became a symbol of new-found unity in the so-called Rainbow Nation, given rugby’s long association with the country’s white minority.

Veteran Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman, 71, (who plays Mandela) bought the film rights of British journalist John Carlin’s book about the World Cup victory entitled Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation. Eastwood, fresh from his success as the director/star of Gran Torino, agreed to produce.

And Bourne Identity star Matt Damon is playing Francois Pienaar (now a rugby pundit) and has dyed his hair an uncharacteristic blond for the role.

The film, which has the working title The Human Factor, is thought to be the only major movie with rugby union as its theme. Eastwood and Freeman have been at Cape Town’s famous Newlands rugby stadium to watch the testosterone filled Super-14 match between the South African based Stormers and the Aussie Queensland Reds.

And Matt Damon has been getting a feel for the game by training with a provincial team in Cape Town.

Anglesey-born Lewis Jones, 40, who lives in Llanarthne, Carmarthen, has been working on the film for a fortnight. He auditioned for his part in front of Clint Eastwood at Twickenham Film Studios in London last November... wearing his Scarlets tie.

He heard he had the part after watching Wales beat Scotland at Murrayfield last month.

He said: “What a weekend, I saw Wales win, I carried off the sweepstake at my local pub in Carmarthen for guessing the correct final score then I was given a part in a Clint Eastwood film.”

He said his wife Kim, who was driving when the took the call from his agent, almost crashed from excitement. Julian and his wife (they met in the Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff) have three children Ieuan, eight, Mared, six and two-year-old Sion.

Speaking from Cape Town, he said he believed the secret of Clint Eastwood’s long-term success as a director was the star’s Malpaso Productions Company.

He said: “Malpaso is a legend in the film industry and some of the guys working with Clint Eastwood have been with him for 25 years so they all know exactly what they are doing. It’s great to be involved with them.”

Malpaso Productions, originally called The Malpaso Company, is Clint Eastwood’s film production vehicle.

The name is derived from a creek south of Carmel, in California, where Eastwood was once mayor and where he has spent much of his life.

Malpaso is the Spanish word for “bad step” or “misstep”. When he agreed to take the role of the Man with No Name in the now classic “Dollars trilogy” his agent told him that it would be a “bad step” for his career.

But the three movies (A Fistful of Dollars, 1964, For a Few Dollars More, 1965, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966) struck box office gold.

Eastwood decided to run his own production company and thought “Malpaso” would be an appropriately ironic choice of name.

The Human Factor covers the turbulent period in South Africa between 1985 and 1995. After filming is completed in May this year it is expected to be released just before Christmas.
 

[higashimori]

   " Forward Feaunati lands film role "

        http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/7963921.stm

       

Former Bath forward Zak Feaunati is to appear in a Hollywood film which tells the true story of how Nelson Mandela used rugby union to unite South Africa.

Clint Eastwood will direct the as yet untitled film, which stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Mandela.

Feaunati, who coaches rugby at a school in the Midlands, said: "I had to talk about myself for the casting director, and then she asked me to do the haka.

"I might have scared one or two of the ladies, but I guess it did the trick."

The film will tell how Mandela rallied South Africa's underdog rugby team to win the World Cup on home soil in 1995.

Feaunati, who won 13 international caps for Samoa, was born and raised in New Zealand and will play one of the All Blacks team who were beaten by the Springboks in the final.

"The first call I got about it was from my old team-mate [Bath prop and Professional Rugby Players' Association chairman] David Barnes, asking me if I wanted to be in a Clint Eastwood film, so I was 99% sure it was a prank," said Feaunati.

"But when I got a further call from the PRA offices, it dawned on me that maybe this was serious."

The number eight, who is now Head of Rugby at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield, played for London Irish and Leeds before joining Bath in 2003.

He made 131 appearances for the club before retiring in the summer of 2008.

[palooka]

I have just returned from Cape Town where my wife and I had an incredible time. What an amazing place it is.

We filmed a scene at the famous V&A Waterfront on Monday 30th and also visited the set to watch more filming another day.

After the days filming and watching Clint work we got to spend a few minutes with him and got a couple of photos and a signature. He was a true gent and it was an amazing moment for me.

I'll fill in full details where I can later and post a picture. I just wanted to check in. Most of the time I spent with the crew was in trusted circumstances that it would be completely unfair to divulge much of what we saw and I'm sure you appreciate that.

One thing I can say is that the movie will not be called The Human Factor nor will it be called Playing The Enemy. The title is still undecided its still currently called "Untitled Mandela Project"