Orlando Bloom Cast In Zulu
After a couple of years off and with a few extra small films under his collar (Sympathy For Delicious, Main Street, The Good Doctor) Orlando Bloom is back and cast in a much bigger role for new film Zulu.
Of course Orlando Bloom has a couple of other projects ready for take off at the moment also including, The Laureate; Cities; and The Hobbit so it’s only a matter of time until Orlando is flooding screens again.
Zulu is a South African crime tale and Orlando will work beside co-star with Djimon Hounsou in it.
Zulu will be directed by French filmmaker Jérôme Salle, is based on Caryl Férey’s post-apartheid novel and should shoot in Cape Town in July.
Zulu, the novel, is quite violent so it will be interesting to see if this carries over. The official synopsis is:
‘Ali Neuman, the chief of the Cape Town police crime unit, investigates the murder of 18-year-old Nicole Wiese, found one morning in the South African city’s botanical gardens with her skull crushed in. Since the victim’s father was a member of the Springboks rugby team that won the world championship in 1995, the case attracts heavy press coverage. The trail leads Neuman to an extraordinarily brutal narcotics gang with links to a former apartheid official. The good guys don’t walk away from their encounters with the bad guys unscathed. This is a welcome addition to the growing ranks of crime books set in South Africa—powerful and unflinching in its portrayal of evil both mindless and calculating.’
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