NYT Calls Nelson Mandela's Death a Promo 'Assist' for New Biopic

We’ll watch Idris Elba in pretty much anything; we even tolerated his weird Texan accent in the absolutely awful Prometheus. But the actor himself is not the primary reason millions will buy tickets to see the new Weinstein Company film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

A New York Times story published this weekend calls the civil rights icon’s death a coincidental “assist” for the biopic, which will undoubtedly attract even more interest from holiday filmgoers in the immediate wake of his passing.

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