Movie News for
The Blood Diamond
Release Date:
December 8, 2006
May 31, 2006
From Heaven to Diamonds
Stephen Collins, who has starred on television show 7th Heaven since its debut in 1996, has joined the cast of Blood Diamond. The drama, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Ed Zwick, follows the tale of a poor African farmer who gets entangled in a conflict between a diamond smuggler and the local diamond syndicate. Filming is currently underway in South Africa, where Collins will play an ambassador.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
October 14, 2005
Hounsou sees Diamonds
Djimon Hounsou has signed to star in The Blood Diamond for Warner Bros. Ed Zwick is directing, and Leonardo DiCaprio has the central role. As reported earlier, Jennifer Connelly is in talks for a role as well. The movie is set amidst the smuggling of blood diamonds. Hounsou would play a farmer who inadvertently gets caught up in the activity.
Source: Variety
October 12, 2005
Connelly set for Blood
Jennifer Connelly is in talks to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Warner Bros. Pictures' The Blood Diamond. Edward Zwick is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Charles Leavitt and Marshall Herskovitz. The story centers on an impoverished African farmer who becomes involved in a conflict with a diamond smuggler and a local syndicate that controls the trade.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
June 29, 2005
DiCaprio goes for Diamonds
Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to star in the Warner Bros. thriller The Blood Diamond. Ed Zwick is directing the film, a project in which he became interested while rewriting the script along with Marshall Herskovitz. The movie is set in 1999 Sierra Leone, with the nation swept up in a terrible civil war. DiCaprio would portray a smuggler who works in the business of selling "blood diamonds" - stones that are used to finance terrorists, mercenaries and rebellions. When DiCaprio's character meets an indigenous farmer whose son has disappeared into an army of child soldiers, his fate becomes linked to the native's. Warner Bros. is hoping to get the film into the shooting process at the beginning of 2006.
Source: Variety
March 15, 2005
Zwick to direct Diamond
Ed Zwick (The Last Samurai) is set to direct the adventure-drama Diamond (formerly known as Okavango) for Warner Bros. The story centers on a poor African farmer who becomes involved in a conflict between an American diamond smuggler and the local syndicate that controls the diamond-mining industry. Everyone involved is looking for one particularly valuable diamond. Zwick rewrote the original screenplay along with Marshall Herskovitz. The first draft was handled by Charlie Mitchell.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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