There are movies that have the whiff of "multiple Oscar nominee" before they even begin shooting -- and this is one of them. According to Variety, Forrest Whitaker is set to direct and star in "What a Wonderful World," a biopic of the legendary Louis Armstrong -- and he's doing it for Paris-based Legende, the production company behind last year's Oscar favorite, "La Vie en Rose."
Music fans know that Louis Armstrong was an enormous influence on not only jazz, but American music and culture as a whole. He rose from an impoverished childhood, where he worked odd jobs to keep his mother out of prostitution, to one of the most popular jazz musicians of all time. He even had a pretty successful movie career, usually playing himself. Given his impressive life, it's surprising that he didn't earn a big screen biopic before Ray Charles. Read More...
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