The two actors have played together in the acclaimed drama “Nine 1/2 Weeks” from 1986, film which remained very important for the career. The new project, from which distribution meets Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger, is a political thriller, “Black September“. Hudson, Rourke’s character is an oil tycoon, an unscrupulous type, guilty for destroying several villages from Nigeria. The Nigerian director Jeta Amata is talented and the story is of the true events of the Niger Delta communities in fighting with their own government and multi-national corporation which operating oil, using greed, crime, corruption.
The Nigerian human rights activists and environmental reach at the limit of patience when Ebiere, a pregnant woman, a victim of atrocities against civilians, is charged with a crime that she did not commit and sentenced to hanging. Angry, Nigerians, led by Tamuno, go to America where they get a group of hostages including Kristy and Hudson, Kim Basinger’s character.
Nearly 50% of oil extracted in Nigeria goes directly to the U.S., according to a trade agreement signed between the two countries. Nigeria is the fifth among oil exporters, but the country suffers greatly from this activity, discharges as those made by BP or Exxon Valdez was at least yearly. In the delta of Nigeria lives about 31 million people risk starvation when oil spills occur due to which fish die, the land is contaminated, and the drinking water becomes toxic.
In “Black September” also stars Anne Heche and Sarah Wayne Callies. The movie will be released in the second half of this year. Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke have appeared in the same movie in 2008 – “The Informers”, but had no common sequences filmed. At the premiere of that movie met on the red carpet, and Rourke told for IMDB that was their first meeting after 23 years, how many had passed since the release of “Nine 1/2 Weeks”.
