variety.com - 1/16/2008
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Tim Story set to direct basketball drama The Weinstein Co. is negotiating with Forest Whitaker to star in and Tim Story to direct "Patriots," a drama that will begin production in early April. Whitaker would play Al Collins, basketball coach for John Ehret High in Marrero, La., who led his Patriots to the state championship a year after Katrina ravaged the school and displaced many of its ...
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Forest Whitaker to Lead ‘The Patriots’
Vulture —
... Whitaker, TWC Side Deal: You’ve been reading about those interim deals to get around the writers' strike, and now you can see the first one in action, as the Weinstein Company green-lights Tim Story to direct Forest Whitaker in the post-Katrina sports drama Patriots, made possible by a side deal between TWC and the WGA. Also made possible by side deals: The Industry not taking three damn hours to write. [Variety] ...
Stalked: Forest Whitaker, Ellen Page, Drew Barrymoore, Annette Bening
Filmstalker —
... rising from the debris of Hurricane Katrina. The story sees Whitaker playing the coach of the basketball team at John Ehret High in Louisiana who built a team from players across five schools in the disaster area, and took them to the State Championships and won. Think Hoosiers but with natural disaster and plenty of political messages. Tim Story is directing Patriots from a script by Robert Eisele who write The Great Debaters . The story comes from Variety through Empire . Strange as it may sound but Ellen Page is starring ...
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Gawker: defamer —
... · Forest Whitaker enters the "playing coaches in uplifting sports dramas" phase of his Oscar-winning career, as he's in negotiations to join the cast of Patriots as the man who led a high school basketball team to the Louisiana state championship following Hurricane Katrina. [Variety] ...
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Variety.com 1/16/2008
Front Page: Tim Story set to direct basketball drama -- The Weinstein Co. is negotiating with Forest Whitaker to star in and Tim Story to direct "Patriots," a drama that will begin production in early April.
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Variety.com 1/16/2008
Los Angeles: Tim Story set to direct basketball drama -- The Weinstein Co. is negotiating with Forest Whitaker to star in and Tim Story to direct "Patriots," a drama that will begin production in early April.
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