Director Clint Eastwood's Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, will be released by Warner Bros. December 11. Variety reported that the working title for the film, which is adapted from John Carlin's book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation, had been The Human Factor.
Eastwood's title is taken from a William Ernest Henley poem of the same name, "often recited by Mandela" and "speaks to the will to survive in the face of adversity," Variety noted.