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Rugby gets a Hollywood makeover

Posted Nov 11, 2008

A new Clint Eastwood film in the pipeline will ensure rugby walks the red carpet

Football has long taken the spotlight from rugby in the glamour stakes, but we’ve heard on the grapevine that the situation is all about to change with a new film dedicated to the sport in the works.

According to film bible Variety, Clint Eastwood's new movie Human Factor has signed up Matt Damon to play the lead role and rugby star Francois Pienaar, captain of the Springboks in a movie about how the 1995 Rugby World Cup helped to heal post-apartheid race relations in South Africa. The film has supposedly signed up Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in a film based on the book by John Carlin and his story of post-apartheid South Africa.

Pienaar, who is set to be the main character in the forthcoming film, worked in partnership with Nelson Mandela, following South Africa’s hosting of the Rugby World Cup in 1995. Together they created a rare event in which black and white South Africans could unite behind and support. The movie is scheduled to begin shooting in South Africa in early 2009 and according to Variety magazine, “Freeman, went to South Africa with last spring to get Mandela's blessing on the project”.

D&G is already ahead of the Hollywood curveball (it's all new to us so forgive the terminology) with their new Italian rugby players underwear campaign, shot by Randall Mesdon in the Jean Bouin Arena in Paris. The campaign features leading players from the Italian national team that include Sergio Parisse, Denis Dallan, Ezio Galon, Andrea Masi and Gonzalo Canale.

Their very impressive bodies sculpted through dedication, discipline and physically strenuous training, make them the perfect models for a new ideal of beauty that is healthy, clean and masculine…and of course worthy of the Hollywood treatment.

 

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