Danny Glover Films Greenlighted by Hugo Chavez

Hollywood wouldn't do it, so Venuzuelan president Hugo Chavez will. For years, black filmmakers in Hollywood have tried to bring to the big screen the story of slave revolutionary Toussaint L'ouveture, but could not because of lukewarm interest from Hollywood. Black dramas are viewed as box office poison by Tinseltown, let alone a black historical epic. But recently the Venezuelan Congress approved the financing of two films that are to be directed by the award-winning actor Danny Glover. The other film is to focus on South American liberator Simon Bolivar. Turns out that there is quite a link between the two historical figures. Haiti's Toussaint, according to the book Written in Blood by John Heinl, practically financed the South American Liberator's liberation campaign.