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Forest Whitaker Set for What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong biopic
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Allan Ford |
Oct 8, 2008 |
Movie News
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Forest Whitaker is set to direct and star in “What a Wonderful World” – which is based on the life of Louis Armstrong.
It’s been twenty years since Forest Whitaker first got under the skin of a true jazz great, with his wonderful turn as Charlie Parker in Clint Eastwood‘s “Bird.”
The film will be called “What a Wonderful World” based on Armstrong’s well known song and will chronicle the musician’s life from his impoverished early days in New Orleans to his death in 1971 following a long career over which he transformed jazz and popular music as a whole.
