RobertRedford.jpgRobert Redford is reported as being signed up to play Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey in an as yet untitled film about the baseball legend Jackie Robinsons struggle against racism in America and the baseball circuit in 1947.



According to Production Weekly through Empire, despite earning his place on the Dodgers team he endured death threats, physical and verbal abuse at games, and at one point the threat of the entire opposition team striking rather than playing against him.



It all sounds incredibly far fetched, and yet its true. The film promises a tough, uncompromising look at the late 1940s, and a great sounding triumph over adversity tale.



Ali co-writers Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J Rivele are on the script and Thomas Carter from Coach Carter is directing, so expect more of the same from them all.



This article is courtesy of Filmstalker

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