https://staging2.theplaylist.net/forest-whitaker-to-star-in-colin-powell-biopic-colin-firth-to-star-in-mi6-spy-movie-20130930/ Fri, 13 May 2016 08:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/forest-whitaker-to-star-in-colin-powell-biopic-colin-firth-to-star-in-mi6-spy-movie-20130930/#comment-44144 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:56:00 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/forest-whitaker-to-star-in-colin-powell-biopic-colin-firth-to-star-in-mi6-spy-movie-93112/#comment-44144 This isn't new so much. Forest Whitaker's production company bought the script back when it made the Blacklist in 2011. It was sort of a no-brainer that he would take the title role

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/forest-whitaker-to-star-in-colin-powell-biopic-colin-firth-to-star-in-mi6-spy-movie-20130930/#comment-44145 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:56:00 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/forest-whitaker-to-star-in-colin-powell-biopic-colin-firth-to-star-in-mi6-spy-movie-93112/#comment-44145 Just shows how many black men we have in Hollywood. That should have been Jeffrey Wright's role but he already played Powell in that W. film.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/forest-whitaker-to-star-in-colin-powell-biopic-colin-firth-to-star-in-mi6-spy-movie-20130930/#comment-44146 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:56:00 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/forest-whitaker-to-star-in-colin-powell-biopic-colin-firth-to-star-in-mi6-spy-movie-93112/#comment-44146 I suppose the fact that Whitaker looks and sounds absolutely nothing like either Martin Luther King OR Colin Powell wasn't taken into consideration?

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