Taye Diggs Beats the Drum

Taye Diggs (Chicago) will topline the Armada Pictures feature Drum, which goes before cameras November 7 in South Africa under the direction of Zola Maseko.

Bringing Down the House writer Jason Filardi penned the project, which is based on the real life accounts of Drum magazine writer Henry Nxumalo, who risked his life exposing the brutal nature of the South African apartheid regime.

Diggs, who earlier this month was handed an excellence in filmmaking award at the 39th Chicago Film Festival, will next be seen in the GreeneStreet production Slow Burn.