The trailer for Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film, ‘Invictus’ has been released this week. Based on last year’s acclaimed sports book by John Carlin: Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation, it tells the story of how Mandela used the 1995 Rugby World Cup to bind together South Africa in the early days of his presidency. This has Oscars written all over it (Clint Eastwood? Triumph against adversity? Racism? Morgan Freeman? Matt Damon? It’s got to win something), and finally gives us a chance to see Morgan Freeman play a role he has been linked with for years. Have a look at the trailer and see what you think. On first viewing, Freeman and Matt Damon seem to have at least got the accents down, but we’ll have to wait for the finished article to find out whether justice has been done to one of sport’s most iconic moments.
If nothing else, it will be good to see a high-profile film about rugby. Most non-American sports have fared pretty badly on the big screen over the years, with one or two notable exceptions, and I can’t think of a good rugby union film, although rugby league can lay claim to a classic in This Sporting Life.
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