A magical combination of Freeman, Dylan and Eastwood playing some of South Africa’s finest men.

Morgan Freeman looks like he was born to play Nelson Mandela on the Big Screen, so when he stumbled on an obscure book proposal on how the new South Africa was partly forged at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, he knew that he’d found the key to his dream of playing such a great man.

Warner Brothers has given the go ahead for this Epic film that is to be called ‘Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation’ is set to be released towards the end of 2008.

With the likes of Clint Eastwood as the film’s director and the talented Matt Damon playing the greatest South Africa’s rugby player Francois Piennaar this is going to be a movie that will be etched into the mind of the world.

The script for the film is based on a forthcoming book by John Carlin who, when bumping into Morgan Freeman said “Mr. Freeman, I think I have a movie for you.”

The script, by the South African writer Tony Peckham, is now complete and has impressed everyone that has read it.

“Usually when you read a Hollywood adaption you think – what a bunch of hollow, shallow crap,” Carlin said. “But this screenplay is really bloody good!”

The movie, set around the 1995 Rugby World Cup which South Africa won, only a year after Nelson Mandela was voted South Africa‘s first black president.

The film on Nelson Mandela is set to capture the hearts of the people that were there and the people that were not yet born, “It’s about an event that distils the essence of Mandela’s genius and the essence of the South African miracle.”

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