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Weinstein scoops rights to Mandela biopic

FILM: The Weinstein Company has announced a distribution deal for a new film version of Nelson Mandela’s best-selling autobiography.

Monday 11 March 2013 11:30 AM


Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, directed by Justin Chadwick, stars British actor Idris Elba – who played Stinger Bell in the HBO television series The Wire – as the former South African president and champion of the struggle against apartheid.

No release date has been set, but the film is expected in cinemas later this year.