Mist lifts on canning of 'racist' Vanilla Gorilla

James Bond star Pierce Brosnan was about to get on a plane to Durban in 2008 when he learnt that funding had collapsed for 'Vanilla Gorilla', the film he was due to shoot there. Eight years later, it has emerged that the Industrial Development Corporation pulled the plug on a proposed R115-million investment after being advised that the script about an albino ape being returned to the wild in Rwanda was racist and patronising.