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DANNY GLOVER BEHIND FIRST ARAB ACTION HERO: Actor partners with UAE-based company for 'Sharq Warriors.'
*UAE-based Colourblind Entertainment announced that Danny Glover is joining its Board of Directors and will help in the development of "Sharq Warriors," a videogame franchise featuring "Sami" the first modern Arab action hero.
Sami uses shooting, driving and parkour (free running) skills as he navigates tricky desert settings and comes under rapid fire from the robotic defense systems operated by the Shamal Force. Sami is fighting to save his homeland - a modern fictional Middle Eastern country and to free his sister who has been captured by the GEG militia.
Colourblind has formed a partnership with Louverture Films, which was co-founded by Glover and producer/writer Joslyn Barnes.
"I first heard about this project during a visit to Dubai and could see the huge potential of developing the 'Sami' franchise," Glover says in a statement. "My production company Louverture is venturing into 3-D animation films as well as other new media and 'Sami' and 'Sharq Warriors' are a perfect fit for us. I am also excited to be involved in creating heroes for other regions like South Asia and Africa that have been ignored or handled insensitively by the existing game developers."
Glover joins internationally-renowned journalist Riz Khan (a show host at Al Jazeera English and formerly with the BBC and CNN) as part of an international team that is launching the video game.
"Danny Glover has succeeded in Hollywood, which is the toughest entertainment market in the world" Khan says, adding, "Louverture Films is producing movies in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, Latin America, all markets that we are targeting in line with the philosophy of our name 'Colourblind' that heroes can be of any color.
"Many existing games feature Western soldiers shooting Arabs, Afghans and other ethnic 'enemies.' as well as bad guys who are consistently of African descent, Latino, Arab or Muslim in general. We think that only reinforces negative stereotypes. We're introducing different types of heroes and 'Sami' is the first of them but he fights corruption, not people of another race in an adventure packed with action that is sure to deliver an adrenalin rush."
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