Forest Whitaker to direct and star in Louis Armstrong biopic

Since Forest Whitaker's sensational, Oscar-winning turn as the creepy, charismatic and sometimes-cannibalistic Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland , he's starred in a bunch of less-than-stellar efforts like Vantage Point and Street Kings . But it looks like he's found a role that will make good on his potential: Whitaker will direct and star in a biopic of the infamous scat-singing, scratchy-voiced virtuoso Louis Armstrong.

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