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Chess

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February 12, 2008
Trio join Chess match

Alessandro Nivola, David Oyelowo and Jon Abrahams signed on to Chess, a biopic about music impresario and renowned record company executive Leonard Chess. Nivola will play the title character, Abrahams his brother Phil, and Oyelowo will be Muddy Waters, a music industry big name whose career was jump-started by Chess. It was penned by Peter Wortmann and Bob Conte, and will be directed by Jerry Zaks. Production is expected to begin in March.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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