Hilary Swank and Richard Gere are currently in South Africa shooting scenes for their latest movie, Earhart, which is based on the life story of American pilot Amelia Earhart.

Swank plays the lead role of the American aviator who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. Gere plays her husband George Putman.

During an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, Earhart, along with navigator Fred Noonan, disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Earhart and Noonan were never found, nor were any physical remains of their aircraft, resulting in a fascination with her life, career and disappearance that continues to this day.

The cast and crew have been shooting scenes around Chapman's Peak and the Slangkop Lighthouse near Kommetjie.

The team will then head to the Eastern Cape to shoot other scenes, while other sections of the movie are being shot in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Source: South Africa The Good News