Luke Wilson Has Been Hired to Star in Depression-Era Football Drama 12 MIGHTY ORPHANS
If you know me at all, you know I love a good sports movie or series. There’s just something about an underdog story that gets me right in the feels, especially one that’s true. And boy do we have an underdog story for you! Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Idiocracy) has been hired to star in the drama 12 Mighty Orphans, directed by Ty Roberts (The Iron Orchard).
The story is being adapted from the book by Jim Dent, “based on the true story of a group of Fort Worth orphans who vie for the state championship and rally a broken nation at the height of the Great Depression.” Here’s the full rundown from Deadline:
Wilson will play Coach Rusty Russell, a WWI vet with a troubled past he can trace to his mother leaving him in an orphanage when he was a child. Looking for redemption by trying to turn around the fortune of other orphans, he accepts a job as the head football coach to a Texas orphanage/high school. Through dedication, redirects his players’ feelings of loss and humiliation into a dominant team that played in the Texas state championship.
This sounds like it will be a great movie, maybe a tearjerker, but more than likely a feel good film that will shine a light on a desperate time in our nation’s history. Are you interested in this story?