*Djimon Hounsou will go from playing a fisherman in the upcoming “Blood Diamond” to an aspiring concert pianist trying to escape the hood in Melee Entertainment’s “The Trunk.”
The Oscar-nominated actor will play an inner-city music prodigy trying to get out of the ghetto through his music as his jealous friends try to hold him back.
Boris Kodjoe and Brian White are also in the film, which director Sylvain White will begin shooting later this year in San Francisco.
In the meantime, Hounsou’s “Blood Diamond” arrives in theaters Dec. 15 with a story set in 1990s war-torn Sierra Leone. The film follows South African mercenary Danny Archer and Mende fisherman Solomon Vandy (Hounsou), whose disparate lives ultimately cross in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives.
While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon--who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields--has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon's family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.
Watch the Blood Diamond trailer here: