A biopic you're hoping to see (and the actor)

John Montague/LaVerne Moore...I may have read somewhere that a movie was being made, but a quick google search didn't produce any results. I'm thinking Philip Seymour Hoffman for the lead.

http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/unearthing_a_golf_legend.php

 

Eastwood did just finish a Mandela movie focused around the Rugby World Cup starring Morgan Freeman. Should be out this fall.

 

Thanks for this.

With Freeman, means it likely focuses on his post-prison life.

 

NYT reporter David Rohde, who was captured by, and escaped from, the Taliban.

Christian Bale seems good for the role, especially after his effort in Rescue Dawn.

 

Lou Gossett played Satch in the 1980s TV movie referenced above by DanOregon, which was fairly good as those things go (although the baseball action was lame).

You'd also have to add the epilogue of Paige pitching three innings for the Kansas City A's in 1965, at the (approximate) age of 58, giving up one hit (a double to Yaz), no runs, and striking out one.

As far as who could play Paige, I'm trying to think: it's got to be a tall, lanky guy (Paige was 6-4) who can carry off the baseball scenes at least believably.

HBO's "Soul of the Game" in 1996 was pretty good (although highly fictionalized).


I'm surprised someone hasn't taken a run at a big-budget Jackie Robinson biopic.


On a tangent from the "Worst Actor" thread, I've always thought Bobby Layne is the role Matthew McConaughey was born to play.

 

Howard Baldwin, who co-produced "Ray" (and, previously, owned three different NHL franchises) is trying to put together a Gordie Howe project. It would focus on the 1973-74 season when he came out of retirement at age 45 to join his sons with the Houston Aeros. I have no idea who would or could play Howe......Gordie is such an imposing and recognizable figure, it might have to be an unknown guy.

 

Winston Churchill, played by Pauly Shore.

 

"Attitude, duuuuude, is a little thing that makes a big dih-fur-ennnnnnce!"

 

In Canada, absolutely.

For most of the American movie-going public they could cast Ving Rhames.

 

Shit.

I'd love to see a Jackie Robinson film get made.

 

The Clash with John Cusack as Joe Strummer.

 

Jerry Garcia
Jack Kerouac
Ken Kesey
Ezra Pound
William Blake