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Because We Need Another Inspirational Football Movie!! Here comes THE EXPRESS!!
Merrick again...
Dennis Quaid will star as the man who coached Ernie Davis -- the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy. Davis has yet to be cast. The film will be directed by Gary Fleder, a veteran television director (HOMICIDE, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD, KISS THE GIRLS).
Charles Leavitt ("Blood Diamond") wrote the latest draft of the script.
...says the Hollywood Reporter article HERE.
THE EXPRESS joins other inspirational football movies like the recent INVINCIBLE and the forthcoming WE ARE MARSHALL. I think it's about time for a really depressing football movie...equal time and all.
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i get to post first on a page, yee-ha
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take that geeks.
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im good at this
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this is getting too much.
i wont do one if im fifth -
fifth aswell
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sports movies in general tend to be great to watch. Even the comedy ones are pretty darn good.
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The Dude from moesha.
Ray Jay or something -
you are right. Many are about "struggles" and bla bla bla.
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How many times can Hollywood make movies featuring the first time a member of a minority won/accomplished something? I wouldn't be surprised to wake up one day and read Sony is producing a movie about the first hispanic Jeopardy! champion. A heartwarming triumph, indeed.
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that is all
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Ooh, burn!
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...is now making the jump to features, is he?
Same Fleder who directed Kiss The Girls, Things Do In Denver When You're Dead, Don't Say a Word and Runaway Jury?
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or at least very few people know. i know, it's the whole, "oh, another inspirational football story" and all that...however, as a Syracuse grad and fan, i'm absolutely stoked about this. not only was Ernie the first african-american heisman winner, but he died of lieukemia at the age of 23, before he could ever play a down of pro football, yet he maintained a tremendous attitude the whole time. he would have been one of the all-time greats. just check out the ESPN sports century on him, and i defy you to not get a bit misty eyed.
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You beat me to it. Oh and am I the only one who loves THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD?? That movie was fucking cool, man. Chris Walken and Andy García steal the show. Not to mention doc Brown and Buscemi as a mute assasin. O and that tango girl from SCENT OF A WOMAN looks bloody GORGEUS. Where is the love? It deserves it.
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how about a film about the '97 Detroit Lions? that would be AWESOME
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This will surely inspire me in ways that the last fifteen inspirational football movies released could not. Hooray for sports or whatever!
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Dec 07, 2006 11:56:33 AM CST
I really hate how this is become it's own genre now...
by danielkurland
I can already hear the touchdown roars of the crowd playing over "Based on a True Story" in the trailer.
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i personally think people will be surprised, because it DOESNT have a happy ending. it's basically Brian's Song, only these events took place well before that story. i'm excited as hell about this.
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Dec 07, 2006 12:21:57 PM CST
If Keanu can be an NFL QB, Dennis Quaid can be a coach.
by gibsonusa returns
Whhoa.
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You can't top Rudy. Solid film, and he's not a minority!
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Even some very good ones! The surprise is, that he works for Television!
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playing the old timer clearly modeled on Dan Marino in "Any Given Sunday", prolly the most recent non-inspirational film with its overtly selfish players, grasping trophy wives, covetuous owners, etc. ESPN's "Playmakers" also was hardly a flattering look at the gridiron game. So where are ESPN's balls in ignoring Michael Irvin with his atrociously racist Tony Romo quotes?
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When I first saw the topic heading, I was jeez another Inspirational Football movie, but then I saw it was about Ernie Davis and my attitude change. This is a story that should/needs to be told. I just wonder if they are going to stop once he wins the Heisman Trophy (to keep it somewhat upbeat) or go into his very short tenure with the browns and his no avail fight with Lukemia. I find that part of his life just as be as inspirational if not more so, but at the same time its very tragic and one can only wonder what could have been if he had lived.
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and have it stop with the Heisman win. you've got to have his being drafted #1, traded to the Browns, and then being diagnosed with Leukemia, mentioning how he became friends with Jim Brown (who Davis succeeded at Syracuse, and who he would have played alongside in Cleveland) and how Art Modell pleaded with Paul Brown to let Davis at least return one kickoff so that he could achieve his dream of playing in the NFL, but Brown refusing to let him suit up...and ultimately, his very, very untimely death. it's just a great, great story, and i'm glad it's FINALLY going to be told.
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Dec 07, 2006 1:46:58 PM CST
Last i checked, Clooney's "Leatherheads" is still a go
by jackrabbitslim
The notoriously unreliable IMDB has it listed in preproduction.
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Dec 07, 2006 2:09:32 PM CST
"football movies married Drago and punched out Nielson"
by talkbacker with no name
hahahaha talkback of the year!
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I think it was called 'Cool As Ice'...
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just become a Detroit Lions fan, then you can have a new depressing football movie every week.
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Was I the only one to see, for a brief minute, an article titled "Simpsons: The Movie script leaks. Get your look at the pages here before they disappear?"
Was around 12pm (I think) GMT. Was only up for a minute or so, and when I clicked on the link took me to a page that wasn't found.
Hopefully other people saw this :D -
can't wait for the remake!
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...then I say go for it.
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did a feature on Davis earlier this year and it brought me to tears. This is a great story and I hope this film comes through with it.
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Yup. Same bomb-in-ribcage director.
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Dennis Quaid is the Ron Schneider of sports movies.
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airplane rules
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