Whitaker and Washington to star in The Great Debaters together
by Sanem Z / Hot Movie News Crew
Oprah Winfrey and Kate Forte will produce The Great Debaters. The fact-based drama gets an all-star casting. Oscar-winners Forest Whitaker and Denzel Washington have been set to star in the pic.
Washington will also direct the film and he'll play a volatile coach who molds a group of students from a small college in East Texas into an elite debate team that challenges Harvard's championship squad in the 1930s. Whitaker will play the father of one of the students, who finds himself competing with the debate coach for the loyalties of his son.
Inspired by a true story the script is being penned by Robert Eisele.
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Oprah Winfrey and Kate Forte will produce The Great Debaters. The fact-based drama gets an all-star casting. Oscar-winners Forest Whitaker and Denzel Washington have been set to star in the pic.
team that challenges Harvard's championship squad in the 1930s. Whitaker will play the father of one of the students, who finds himself competing with the debate coach for the loyalties of his son.
