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Malkovich, Walsh, and Glenn Race To Randall Wallace's SECRETARIAT!!
Merrick here...
John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh, and the mighty Scott Glenn will join Diane Lane in SECRETARIAT - which is based on the true story of the race horse who won the coveted Triple Crown in 1973.
Diane Lane stars as the horse's owner Penny Tweedy, the housewife who broke though a gender barrier to usher Secretariat to greatness.
Walsh plays Lane's husband, a successful attorney who is accustomed to his wife being at his beck and call.
Malkovich plays a charismatic trainer who underestimates the power of Secretariat; Glenn is a southern-bred aristocrat who loses the horse in a coin toss.
...says The Hollywood Reporter HERE.
The film will be directed by Randall Wallace (who wrote BRAVEHEART and PEARL HARBOR, and wrote/directed WE WERE SOLDIERS), so maybe Secretariat will dodge incoming mortar fire lobbed by competitor steeds, fire side-mounted machine guns, and be slowly disemboweled/martyred to inspire future generations of race horses.
SECRETARIAT is scripted by Mike Rich, who brought us FINDING FORRESTER and Dennis Quaid's under-appreciated THE ROOKIE.
Walsh plays Lane's husband, a successful attorney who is accustomed to his wife being at his beck and call.
Malkovich plays a charismatic trainer who underestimates the power of Secretariat; Glenn is a southern-bred aristocrat who loses the horse in a coin toss.
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I've never been into horse racing, but watching that doc's coverage of the horse just going full bore with no let up on the last race choked me up. I don't know if I'll find the people in this story that interesting, but it was a helluva horse.
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But seriously, you couldn't squeeze Dakota Fanning into this crap? Oh wait, she's suddenly 21 years old... what about Abby Breslin? Is she still a kid? Kids love horses!!!!
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maybe that wallace dude was just involved in another capacity. but when you put movie titles next to a director's name it usually means he directed them. or was this one of those instances with two directors? anyway as for this movie...yeah no.
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I don't know. I've never bothered been even remotely interested in watching a friggin horse movie on the big screen. I did see some of RACING STRIPS on video-that was some major entertainment!
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Sep 22, 2009 11:45:40 AM CDT
Does the horse talk while chewing peanut butter?
by doctor_leonard_mccoy
Because if the horse doesn't talk I'm not interested.
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With William Wallace, who actually was "Braveheart."
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The Godfather.
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http://tinyurl.com/4xtobc
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...but it sure smells good!
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Randall Wallace was writer of all the movies listed by his name.
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Lotsa money shots!!
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Get up to speed, cool news reporters!
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Just keeping up with the hilarious post by Mr Spork
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ok, I'm done for now.
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A whole department of Maggie's G's in hot office gear on their hands and knees. I would pay to see that.
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He said that Randall Wallace wrote Braveheart, not that he directed it. The only movie mentioned that he directed was We Were Soldiers.
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Diane Lane gets prettier with age. That is all.
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Y'all knew that was coming!
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Big red - can not be played by a dog, so no Maggie G
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OK, I'm done here!
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and we already know it wins. Why bother?
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Seriously, how many movies about famous fast horses are needed?
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Oh, Diane, you're so lovely, and pretty talented, to... Why must you pick such shitty, shitty projects?!
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I really dont
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I was in the Preakness infield on that Saturday in May 1973 when Secretariat did his thing. Guess that makes me old.
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Its new wig time...
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cast together in something. Bring some of that married chemistry. And they're both good actors on the brink of that next big break.
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Hollow Man 3.
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Malkovich,Malkovich. Malkovich,Malkovich,Malkovich,Malkovich!!!!
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That gorgeous glue-factory won me a hundred bucks in an office pool. Almost cried when he had to be put down...
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It only won a third of the triple crown. Only 11 have won all three and Secretariat owns the record in two of those three. Long story short, his stud fees would make getting a facial from him a decent idea.
With that said, the story of Secretariat isn't all too different from Seabiscuit . . . other than the speed of the horse. -
Great episode. Hell, Sandy Koufax is even it. Mr. Ed hit an inside-the-park homerun. When he slid, it looked like they took a plastic horse (or maybe even a dead horse) and just threw it across homeplate. To this day, it's the funniest thing I've ever seen.
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SEABISCUIT was a film I dearly loved. Hopefully SEC. can capture the same magic while keeping it's own identity.
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I heart Diane Lane.
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That wrote Pearl Harbor and directed Man in the Iron Mask and wrote the novel for Braveheart? The only thing I liked on there was Braveheart and that was because I didn't know any history yet. Pass.
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If anyone read the book We Were Soldiers Once and Young they'd want to kill this man.
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Sep 22, 2009 10:31:45 PM CDT
Seabiscuit was an underdog story; Secretariat, not so much
by feralangel
Seabiscuit was an undersized runt with sprung knees who nevertheless blew the doors off nearly every better-bred, better-looking horse he raced. Secretariat was tall, handsome, and built for speed. He was physical perfection as far as racehorses go. How do audiences identify with that?
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and more about the horse being owned by a small time horse farm and not one of the super farms. What makes it most like Seabiscuit is that it takes place during Vietnam and Watergate and something as simple as a horse was able to get everyone's spirits up.
And though he was a super horse it had been 25 years since the last triple crown winner, which at the time was the longest drought ever and some people thought it would never be done again. It remained the longest drought until the one we have now since we haven't had a winner since '79.
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