Forest Whitaker is becoming an expert in biopics, if he already won the Oscar as the dictator Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland", now in the shoes of Cecil Gaines, the former butler of the Casablanca, he could receive a new nomination for the Academy Award for best actor and soon to play Martin Luther King in the upcoming Paul Greengrass film "Memphis," soon to play another real character, Colin Powell.
The tape, which will be titled «Powell«, It is a biopic of the former US defense minister Colin Powell, focusing very especially on the speech that he made so famous, the one he carried out in the United Nations justifying America's war against Saddam Hussein's regime, ensuring that Iraq he was in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
The script for "Powell" is in charge Ed whitworth, the same one who has written «reykjavic«, Another film that will investigate political issues, specifically the relationship between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, starring Michael Douglas and Christoph Waltz.
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