AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - John Legend cast as Harry Belafonte in film about Paul Simon's controversial 'Graceland' album
EGOT-winning musician John Legend will portray the late civil rights icon Harry Belafonte in The Road Home, a drama now filming in South Africa that revisits the political firestorm over Paul Simon's decision to record in apartheid-era South Africa. Director Bill Condon, known for Gods and Monsters, is shooting the music-driven film from a screenplay […] The post John Legend cast as Harry Belafonte in film about Paul Simon's controversial 'Graceland' album appeared first on American Almanac .
EGOT-winning musician John Legend will portray the late civil rights icon Harry Belafonte in The Road Home, a drama now filming in South Africa that revisits the political firestorm over Paul Simon's decision to record in apartheid-era South Africa. Director Bill Condon, known for Gods and Monsters, is shooting the music-driven film from a screenplay by Michael Bronner, whose credits include The Mauritanian and United 93. Johnny Flynn plays Paul Simon, Cynthia Erivo plays exiled South African vocalist Miriam "Mama Africa" Makeba, Guy Pearce plays Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, and Thabo Rametsi plays South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, through whose perspective the story unfolds, The Hollywood Reporter reported . The film centers on…Open