{"id":5811,"date":"2009-06-08T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T22:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2009-08-26T01:46:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T00:46:27","slug":"matt-damon-morgan-freeman-clint-eastwood-on-the-set-of-invictus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/06\/08\/matt-damon-morgan-freeman-clint-eastwood-on-the-set-of-invictus\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood on the set of Invictus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1057500\/\"><strong>Invictus<\/strong><\/a> is the title of the\u00a0film based on\u00a0<a title=\"Nelson Mandela\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelson_Mandela\">Nelson Mandela<\/a>&#8216;s life during the\u00a0<a title=\"1995 Rugby World Cup\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995_Rugby_World_Cup\">1995 Rugby World Cup<\/a> in\u00a0<a title=\"South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\">South Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by\u00a0<a title=\"Clint Eastwood\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clint_Eastwood\">Clint Eastwood<\/a>, the film stars\u00a0<a title=\"Morgan Freeman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morgan_Freeman\">Morgan Freeman<\/a> as the then\u00a0<a title=\"President of South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_South_Africa\">South African President<\/a> Mandela and\u00a0<a title=\"Matt Damon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Damon\">Matt Damon<\/a> as\u00a0<a title=\"Francois Pienaar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francois_Pienaar\">Francois Pienaar<\/a>, the\u00a0<a title=\"South Africa national rugby union team\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa_national_rugby_union_team\">South African team<\/a> captain.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the\u00a0<a title=\"John Carlin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carlin\">John Carlin<\/a> book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1843548607?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=1843548607\">Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation<\/a><\/em>, it is due for release in the US in December.<\/p>\n<p>However images taken on the set have surfaced on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emailjokes.co.za\/pictures\/more\/44341_Movies--Clint-Eastwood-movie-shoot-in-SA.htm?active_image=443411-Photo0411_57276_44341_1.jpg#subject\">a South African website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5813\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5813\" title=\"Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/matt-damon-as-francois-pienaar1.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5814\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5814\" title=\"Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/morgan-freeman-as-nelson-mandela.jpg\" alt=\"Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5815\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5815\" title=\"Clint Eastwood on the set of Invictus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/clint-eastwood.jpg\" alt=\"Clint Eastwood on the set of Invictus\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clint Eastwood on the set of Invictus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1057500\/\">Invictus<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; Find out more about\u00a0<a title=\"Francois Pienaar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francois_Pienaar\">Francois Pienaar<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Nelson Mandela\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nelson_Mandela\">Nelson Mandela<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995_Rugby_World_Cup\">the 1995 Rugby World Cup<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images of Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood on the set of Invictus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,16,2],"tags":[266,998,385,721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}