Seattle Sports Movies Waiting To Be Made
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This week's Bounce will be a short one. After learning that someone has made a Ryan Leaf biopic, I began thinking of other local sports movies that are waiting to be made.
Purple Rain
The long-awaited return to the silver screen for recording artist Prince. Aided by digital technology, he plays every member of the 1991 Husky football team in this explosive musical.
Reign Man
Shawn Kemp, Jr. plays his father. Tom Cruise takes him to Vegas. Hilarity and bonding ensue.
Glove, Indubitably
Starring Dave Chappelle as a hard-partying Gary Payton, Jim Breuer as Detlef Schrempf, and Alia Shawkat as an underage franchise executive.
Coach
Craig T. Nelson plays George Karl. Wayne Brady plays coach-on-the-floor Nate McMillan. (And, no, they never made a movie of Coach, but it would've been cool if they did.)
Field of Dreams
Kevin Costner builds idyllic baseball field out of pure love for the game. Uses taxpayer money, names it after insurance company.
The Morrison Diaries
In Charlie Kaufman-penned screenplay, Adam Morrison plays back-from-the-dead Morrison hero Che Guevara playing Adam Morrison. Morrison/Guevara/Morrison leads Charlotte players in proletariat revolt against coach Larry Brown (John Keister) and general manager Michael Jordan (Tracy Morgan). At the end of the movie, actual back-from-the-dead Guevara rides motorcycles with Morrison/Guevara/Morrison. Sadly, the movie closes with both riders being killed by rednecks driving a pick-up truck.
Largent
Ian Ziering plays Seahawk Legend Steve Largent. Reprising his role in the Prop 8 musical, Jack Black plays the Jesus on Steve's shoulder.
Friday Part 4 (aka Next Next Next Friday)
Newly jobless friends Tyrone Willingham and Bill Bavasi engage in wacky adventures to end the (non-)work week.
The Natural
Ken Griffey, Jr. (Terrence Howard) hits bottom-of-the-9th playoff home run that knocks out bank of stadium lights, but pulls his hamstring rounding third and fails to score. The game goes into extra innings where Bobby Ayala (Nick Cage) blows it.
Purple Rain
The long-awaited return to the silver screen for recording artist Prince. Aided by digital technology, he plays every member of the 1991 Husky football team in this explosive musical.
Reign Man
Shawn Kemp, Jr. plays his father. Tom Cruise takes him to Vegas. Hilarity and bonding ensue.
Glove, Indubitably
Starring Dave Chappelle as a hard-partying Gary Payton, Jim Breuer as Detlef Schrempf, and Alia Shawkat as an underage franchise executive.
Coach
Craig T. Nelson plays George Karl. Wayne Brady plays coach-on-the-floor Nate McMillan. (And, no, they never made a movie of Coach, but it would've been cool if they did.)
Field of Dreams
Kevin Costner builds idyllic baseball field out of pure love for the game. Uses taxpayer money, names it after insurance company.
The Morrison Diaries
In Charlie Kaufman-penned screenplay, Adam Morrison plays back-from-the-dead Morrison hero Che Guevara playing Adam Morrison. Morrison/Guevara/Morrison leads Charlotte players in proletariat revolt against coach Larry Brown (John Keister) and general manager Michael Jordan (Tracy Morgan). At the end of the movie, actual back-from-the-dead Guevara rides motorcycles with Morrison/Guevara/Morrison. Sadly, the movie closes with both riders being killed by rednecks driving a pick-up truck.
Largent
Ian Ziering plays Seahawk Legend Steve Largent. Reprising his role in the Prop 8 musical, Jack Black plays the Jesus on Steve's shoulder.
Friday Part 4 (aka Next Next Next Friday)
Newly jobless friends Tyrone Willingham and Bill Bavasi engage in wacky adventures to end the (non-)work week.
The Natural
Ken Griffey, Jr. (Terrence Howard) hits bottom-of-the-9th playoff home run that knocks out bank of stadium lights, but pulls his hamstring rounding third and fails to score. The game goes into extra innings where Bobby Ayala (Nick Cage) blows it.
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