Long Walk To Freedom: The Musical Trilogy

So right now I am taking a course on the South African Politics of the 20th Century. For the course, we are reading two very scholarly books, tons of articles, and Nelson Mandela's autobiography: Long Walk To Freedom. 

One day in class, we (about 4 of us) decided we wanted to make the book into a movie. We then decided we wanted it to be a trilogy, and one third of the trilogy would be a musical. Hence, Long Walk To Freedom: The Musical Trilogy was born. So we started casting.

We decided that the young Nelson Mandela should be played by an up-and-coming actor, this movie would be his debut role. 

Young Adult Nelson Mandela - Will Smith

Middle Aged Nelson Mandela - Terrence Howard

Senior Nelson Mandela - Sidney Poitier

What about Morgan Freeman someone might ask. Don't worry, he is the narrator.

Who would then play Mandela's wives?

For some reason, Rihanna was chose to be his first wife. And Halle Berry was casted to be his second wife Winnie.

David Bopape, a strong member of the African National Congress (ANC) would be played by Djimon Hounsou (from Gladiator). Oliver Tambo of the ANC would be played by Don Cheadle. The token white-guy of the ANC would be none other than Tom Hanks. 

The leader of the militant wing of the ANC, the Umkhonto we Sizwe [Translation: Spear of the Nation] (AKA the MK) would be Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje).

Bono would be one of the white South Africans that housed Nelson Mandela while he was a fugitive.

Other notable cast members include:

Since South Africa has a large Indian population, we casted Freida Pinto, Kelly Kapoor and Sir Ben Kingsley (because he was great in Gandhi)

Will Smith's son (Jaden Smith) could play the role of one of Mandela's sons.

Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, and Mekhi Phifer would also be casted in the movie: actual roles will be announced later, we're waiting on contract agreements.

And somebody decided that Beyonce and Shakira should both be in the movie, somehow.

But you may ask, how are planning on funding this movie? We already solved that problem. One word: OPRAH. We would cast Oprah in the movie as Oprah. We would add her into the story of Nelson Mandela's life by saying her and Mandela were pen-pals during his 27 year prison term. We figured by doing this, she'd pay for the whole movie. Plus, we could always throw in her yelling, "Apartheid is baaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaad!" 

It's a work in progress ... awesome progress