King Leopold’s Ghost

Drama, General Film, History, Never Made

Missing Trailer

Director: Ben Affleck

Writer(s): Farhad Safinia; Adam Hochschild (novel)

Starring: Unknown

Synopsis: This film is an account of the Congolese who defied Leopold II and fought back. Their heroic plight sparked a daring and unlikely alliance between a black American missionary, an English investigative journalist and an Irish spy that shone a light on the horrors and gave birth to the first human rights movement. Once photographs were made public, Leopold’s charade of spreading Christianity in the heart of darkness was exposed as a greedy ruse, and the king was assailed by the likes of Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Conrad, whose disgust with Leopold’s “civilizing mission” led to writing Heart of Darkness.

Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Drama, History | MPAA Rating: Unknown | Note(s): Harry and Gina Belafonte are producers on this project. There has been no update on this project since the Original announcement and it also does not appear on IMDB under any of the names listed above so I’m moving it to Never Made.

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