Oscar Winner Will Also Direct What A Wonderful World
Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker is about to bring another jazz legend's life story to the big screen.
Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker is about to bring another jazz legend's life story to the big screen.
Whitaker, who portrayed Charlie Parker for director Clint Eastwood in Bird, will star in and direct a film on jazz great Louis Armstrong. According to Variety, Whitaker will direct and star in What a Wonderful World. The trade magazine said that the film will begin shooting in the summer in Louisiana.
Whitaker said that Armstrong “lived an amazing life" and “shifted the way music was played" in the U.S. and around the world. Armstrong died in 1971 of a heart attack, just one month shy of his 70th birthday. Whitaker, 47, won a Best Actor Oscar in 2007 for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.
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