Wesley Snipes out, Derek Luke in. News has surfaced stating that Derek Luke has replaced Wesley Snipes in a lead role in “Miracle at St. Anna.” In the report, Snipes withdrew from the project as it became more and more difficult for him to leave the US while facing federal tax-fraud charges.
Luke will join actors such as John Turturro, James Gandolfini, Michael Ealy, Omar Benson and Tory Kittles in this WWII drama that Spike Lee is directing in Italy. Luke played an Army Ranger in Afghanistan in the Robert Redford-directed “Lions for Lambs.”
Luke will play one of four members of the U.S. Army’s all-black 92nd Division who get separated from their squad behind enemy lines. The soldiers, bitter about racism and the feeling that their own government treats its enemy better than it does them, finds humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna. James McBride wrote the script.
Luke, who made his starring debut in the title role of “Antwone Fisher,” just completed the ensemble romantic comedy “Definitely, Maybe.”
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October 1 2007 @ 10:57 pm
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