Morgan Freeman and Halle Berry Team Up For ‘The Patient’
MTV talked to filmmaker Jean-Claude La Marre who says that Morgan Freeman and Halle Berry will star in his next project, the family Christmas film The Patient.
La Marre, who wrote the script and will direct, said, “It’s like ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest‘ meets ‘K-Pax.’… Freeman plays a mental patient at a Harlem hospital psychiatric ward who believes himself to be Santa Claus. And Halle Berry plays the psychiatrist who’s evaluating him.”
When Freeman’s character escapes the hospital and turns up at a Toys “R” Us, Berry wonders if the old man might just be telling the truth.
La Marre plans to begin shooting the film this summer and intends to have it in theaters for Christmas 2007.
