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‘Rise’ Director Akin Omotoso Hatches ‘Plot to Save South Africa,’ Based on Gripping, Real-Life Account of Country’s Narrow Escape From Civil War (EXCLUSIVE)
The director of Disney Plus' Giannis Antetokounmpo biopic has been tapped to direct an adaptation of Justice Malala's gripping political thriller.
“The Plot to Save South Africa” will be produced by Johannesburg-based production outfit Ochre Moving Pictures, which signed a deal with Netflix last year to adapt multiple books for the streaming service alongside Omotoso. After decades of resistance, the apartheid regime seems poised to fall, until a white supremacist shoots and kills Mandela’s popular heir apparent, Chris Hani, in a last-ditch effort to start a civil war. “Justice’s informed and passionate, first-hand rendition of factual events reads like a top-notch thriller (a genre I love) and brilliantly captures a moment forever etched into my mind (and of everyone living in South Africa at that time),” he continued.
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