Desmond Tutu to be played by Forest Whitaker in ‘THE FORGIVEN’

Forest Whitaker

Saban Films will present a new film ‘The Forgiven’ which stars Forest Whitaker as Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 
This thriller film is directed by Academy Award nominee Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission), co-written by Joffé and Michael Ashton, and based on Ashton’s play The Archbishop and The Antichrist.

In “The Forgiven,” when Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Forest Whitaker) is appointed to head a nationwide investigation, he’s summoned to a maximum-security prison by a notorious murderer seeking clemency (Eric Bana). Inside the brutal prison walls, Tutu is drawn into a dangerous, life-changing battle with the cunning criminal.