hollywoodreporter.com - 8/21/2009
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Million Dollar Billy Bob? Billy Bob Thornton is attached to star in "Pound for Pound," a boxing drama based on a novel from F.X. Toole, the author of the book that became "Million Dollar Baby." Ron Shelton will write and direct the indie film, which Leslie Greif and Herb Nanas are producing ...
hollywoodreporter.com - 8/21/2009
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Billy Bob Thornton is attached to star in
"Pound for Pound," a boxing drama based on a...
novel from F.X. Toole, the author of the book that became "Million Dollar Baby."
Billy Bob Thornton to star in boxing pic
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Billy Bob Thornton is set to star in the boxing drama Pound for Pound , according to The Hollywood Reporter . The project is based on a novel by F.X. Toole, the author of the short-story collection behind Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby . Thornton will play a depressed, retired boxer whose life intersects with a young Latino fighter (a role that is still being cast). Ron Shelton ( Bull Durham ) will write and direct. The production is expected to being filming early next year.
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... of the novel by Million Dollar Baby writer FX Toole. Thornton plays a retired and widowed boxer battling depression after his grandson is killed in a car accident, whose life intersects with an up-and-coming Latino boxer. According to producer Leslie Greif, “Unlike Million Dollar Baby, which was fabulous but a dark movie and a tragic story, this is a dark story but with a life-affirming, hopeful ending.” So nobody pulls the plug on anyone this time. [HR] ...
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