Here’s a bit of casting news on one of the busiest actor’s around. Danny Glover is set to co-star in the upcoming interracial romantic drama Chasing Shakespeare. The indie film, which is being directed by Norry Niven, will be filmed in Texas.
According to THR, “the film is a love story between a young African-American man and a Native American girl with a passion for Shakespeare.”
No word yet on casting for the lead characters but Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism) will co-star as a fellow actress who meets the girl at an audition for Hamlet and becomes her friend and roommate.
The script was written by James Bird while Niven and Loren Basulto are producing.