Movie News for The Jazz Ambassadors
Release Date:
TBA
2008
February 3, 2006
New Line has Jazz
New Line Cinema has acquired The Jazz Ambassadors, and plans for Antoine Fuqua to direct and Morgan Freeman to star as Duke Ellington. The movie will follow Ellington's orchestra tour of Iraq in 1963. While he is there, the CIA leads a coup that would eventually allow Saddam Hussein to rise to power. Jeremy Donner is writing the screenplay.
Source: Variety
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