Danny Glover
© AFP/File Tim SloanLOS ANGELES (AFP) - "Lethal Weapon" co-star Glover, 60, currently on a speaking tour of Caracas, has supported Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' political revolution since he was first elected in 1998, as well as the creation last year of Venezuela's Villa del Cine (Film Town), Variety magazine said Tuesday.
On launching Villa del Cine, the anti-US Chavez administration said it intended to do battle with "the Hollywood film dictatorship."
Glover's first project as film director is described as an epic film about Francois-Dominique Toussaint Loverture (1743-1803), one of the forefathers of Haiti's independence from France in 1804.
Glover's production company is aptly named Loverture Films, after the Haitian hero.
The film, the cast and title of which are as yet undecided, is also one of the first projects undertaken by Villa del Cine, which has drawn fire from some Venezuelan film critics for linking up with Hollywood stars.
"With 18 million dollars you could finance five years of local movie production in Venezuela. And (Glover's) film is not even about Venezuela," Venezuelan film director Jonathan Jakubowicz ("Secuestro Express," 2005) told Variety.
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