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US actor Danny Glover, who plans an epic next year on Haitian independence hero Toussaint-Louverture, said he slaved to raise funds for the movie because financiers complained there were no white heroes.
"Producers said 'It's a nice project, a great project... where are the white heroes?'" he told AFP during a stay in Paris this month for a seminar on film.
"I couldn't get the money here, I couldn't get the money in Britain. I went to everybody. You wouldn't believe the number of producers based in Europe, and in the States, that I went to," he said.
"The first question you get, is 'Is it a black film?' All of them agree, it's not going to do good in Europe, it's not going to do good in Japan.
"Somebody has to prove that to be a lie!", he said. "Maybe I'll have the chance to prove it."

"Toussaint," Glover's first project as film director, is about Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803), a former slave and one of the fathers of Haiti's independence from France in 1804, making it the first black nation to throw off imperial rule and become a Republic.

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CALLING ON EVERYONE HAITIANS OR DOMINICANS. IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE THIS MAN TOUSSAINT HAS DONE A GREAT THING FOR US ALL. BLACK,WHITE,BLUE, IT DOESN'T MATTER.

The movie has already been made rom.

Toussaint Louverture,was no hero to French or to White Dominicans ,he was a SAVAGE Murderer.

Clever and smart <-> I figure you can back that up with facts, can you write in english moron

You need a history lesson!

I for one would love to see it released. Whether you like him or not there is no question he was an exceptional man, and his actions affected many nations.

I for one consider him the epithome of the self-made man.

I know some ideas would never fly as commercial projects, but here's one I thought of...I'd like to see a mini-series that follows the lives of George Washington, Simon Bolivar, and Touissaint in parallel. meaning they'd show the youth of each, then young adulthood, etc in parallel. The three are pretty different but they played similar roles in American history. Anyway that would prob be as hard to get funding for as Glover's Touissaint project.

"I know some ideas would never fly as commercial projects, but here's one I thought of...I'd like to see a mini-series that follows the lives of George Washington, Simon Bolivar, and Touissaint in parallel. meaning they'd show the youth of each, then young adulthood, etc in parallel. The three are pretty different but they played similar roles in American history. Anyway that would prob be as hard to get funding for as Glover's Touissaint project."

That would be interesting but would it be fair to compare Touissant to Bolivar or Washington? After all, Bolivar and Washington fought for outright independence for their respective nations (in Bolivar's case several nations) but Touissant did not.