Hansie Cronje – The Movie

// December 2nd, 2004 // General // 2,668 views

The media is a buzz today with the news that a movie will be made on the life of former SA cricket captain Hansie Cronje.

According to Mail & Guardian: “Frans Cronje, the older brother of Hansie Cronje, announced in Durbanville on Wednesday that the Cronje family had authorised a full length feature film on the life of the late cricketer. The film will be shot in South Africa, England, India and Australia in 2005.

The film will be a co-production between the Johannesburg-based Out of Africa Picture Company and Frans Cronje’s Cape Town-based production company, which recently joined forces with a Los Angeles businessman.

The Cronje family has also commissioned a biography that will be authoured by Cape Town-based journalist Garth King. Two former South African cricketers, Jonty Rhodes and Peter Pollock, have featured prominently in the early stages of the process.

The book is due for release in April 2005. The screenplay is currently in development and negotiations are under way to appoint a director. The producers of the movie apparently want to convey an accurate and well-balanced account of Cronje’s story.”

I think this is a fitting tribute to the life of Hansie Cronje who’s had many victories, inspired so many people, made some mistakes, yet redeemed himself through his own actions.

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