{"id":2229,"date":"2006-05-29T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/05\/shake-hands-with-the-devil-the-movie\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T13:33:00","slug":"shake-hands-with-the-devil-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/05\/shake-hands-with-the-devil-the-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"Shake Hands with the Devil &#8212; the movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/1600\/shakehands.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7991\/933\/400\/shakehands.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Another movie about the 1994 Rwanda massacre is in the works, according to a press release I received today.  This one will star Quebecois star Roy Dupuis (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/jesus-of-montreal-lost-in-translation.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Barbarian Invasions<\/a><\/i>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/stores\/series\/-\/88048\/dvd\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">La Femme Nikita<\/a><\/i>, etc.) as Canadian general Rom\u00e9o Dallaire, and it will be based on Dallaire\u2019s memoir <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000BZ99WY\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shake Hands with the Devil<\/a><\/i>, which was already turned into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0424435\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">a documentary<\/a> in 2004.  The director will be Ottawa-born <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0006854\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Roger Spottiswoode<\/a>, whose credits include the James Bond film <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000K0EA\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tomorrow Never Dies<\/a><\/i> (1997) and the Arnold Schwarzenegger cloning flick <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005U123\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The 6th Day<\/a><\/i> (2000; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianchristianity.com\/cgi-bin\/na.cgi?bc\/bccn\/1200\/sixthday\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">my review<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This movie is the latest in a recent spate of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/newsbites-special-da-vinci-muslims-etc.html#5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rwanda-themed films<\/a> that includes 2004\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/god-went-away-and-he-never-came-back.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hotel Rwanda<\/a><\/i> (in which Nick Nolte plays a fictitious Canadian officer named Col. Oliver), 2005\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0007R4SYU\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sometimes in April<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0420901\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shooting Dogs<\/a><\/i>, and the upcoming <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/newsbites-rwanda-penguins-batman-etc.html#1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Un dimanche \u00e0 Kigali<\/a><\/i> (in which Guy Thauvette plays Dallaire himself).<\/p>\n<p>Filming starts in Kigali, Rwanda in mid-June.  If I\u2019m not mistaken, that would make this only the second film, after <i>Shooting Dogs<\/i>, to be shot on location, where the incidents depicted occurred.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Whoops, I forgot that <i>Un dimanche \u00e0 Kigali<\/i> was, itself, shot in Kigali, as befits the movie\u2019s title.  So that would make <i>Shake Hands with the Devil<\/i> at least the third film to shoot there.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another movie about the 1994 Rwanda massacre is in the works, according to a press release I received today. This one will star Quebecois star Roy Dupuis (The Barbarian Invasions, La Femme Nikita, etc.) as Canadian general Rom\u00e9o Dallaire, and it will be based on Dallaire\u2019s memoir Shake Hands with the Devil, which was already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shake Hands with the Devil -- the movie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another movie about the 1994 Rwanda massacre is in the works, according to a press release I received today. 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