ESPN said Monday that its film unit would co-produce with Robert Redford and others a theatrical movie about Brooklyn Dodgers star Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier. ESPN Films joins the biopic that Robert Redford has been working on for several years. Thomas Carter is attached as director. The biopic was announced in the spring of 2005. Redford will play Branch Rickey, the team's general manager whose vision it was to make the statement and whose teamwork with Robinson off the field made it successful. The as-yet-untitled film will be developed by Redford's Wildwood Enterprises and Baldwin/Cohen Prods.
-- Hollywood Reporter ESPN joins Redford's Robinson biopic
04-15-2008, 10:23 AM
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