42 Trailer: The Jackie Robinson Story
With all the sports biopics we’ve seen over the years, and given the tremendous impact that Jackie Robinson had on American sports, you’d think that we’d have seen his story told on the big screen at least a few hundred times by now. Strangely, although there have been a ton of made-for-TV movies and a few documentaries over the years, as far as I can tell the only major retelling of the Jackie Robinson story on the big screen was the 1950 film that starred the man himself. Now writer-director Brian Helgeland (Payback, A Knight’s Tale) is attempting to rectify that situation with his upcoming movie 42.
The movie stars Chadwick Boseman (Persons Unknown) in the lead role, with Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and Alan Tudyk playing Phillies manager Ben Chapman. Although you might assume this would be pure Oscar bait material, the movie isn’t actually coming out until next April. The trailer also uses a Jay-Z track to inject a bit of a modern feel, although it’s unclear if the movie will also use contemporary music. 42 hits theatres on April 12th, 2013; check out the trailer after the jump and see what you think.
Comments (5)
I’m usually a sucker for these types of overly-sentimental sports biopics, but if they can manage to show Robinson’s true character in a more Ray-like fashion, they could have something here.
Posted by Zac on September 21st, 2012The number of back rubs for huge schnozes. I’m there.
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Harrison Ford looks like Noam Chomsky in this. And I’m saying that in a negative way.
Posted by La Menthe on September 25th, 2012When do u record? I sent you an email on sunday, but it didn’t get in the podcast =(.
Posted by La Menthe on September 25th, 2012Sorry, not every e-mail we receive makes it into the show. We will try to address it next week.
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