Showing posts with label Robert Redford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Redford. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Robert Redford will play Branch Rickey in Jackie Robinson film written/directed by LA Confidential Oscar-winner Brian Helgeland; but who plays Jackie?

Jackie Robinson Pictures, Images and Photos

This is among the best bits of news that I have heard all year.
Really!

Forget the hesitation mentioned below, for many reasons, Robert Redford will definitely play the role of Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey.

For the non-baseball/People Magazine crowd it will also seem very logical -the matching bookend to 'The Natural.'
But the casting question remains: who will play Jackie Robinson and his wife Rachel?

Until I hear a better suggestion, I'm rooting for Michael B. Jordan, late of Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, both of which I love. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0430107/


Los Angeles Times
24 Frames film blog
Robert Redford will play Branch Rickey -- or Bill Bryson
By Steven Zeitchik
June 1, 2011 | 5:17 pm

In April, Robert Redford tipped 24 Frames that he’d star in a movie about the relationship between Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey and second baseman Jackie Robinson. The film would be written and directed by “L.A. Confidential” writer Brian Helgeland, and produced and financed by Legendary Pictures, we wrote. The company squirmed at our posting on the subject, saying it was early days to talk about the film.

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Entertainment Weekly
Robert Redford is Branch Rickey, but who should play Jackie Robinson?
by Jeff Labrecque
April 7, 2011
Robert Redford has been talking about making a Jackie Robinson movie for seven years, and according to the Los Angeles Times, it’s finally in motion. Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale) will write and direct, focusing on the special relationship between the Hall of Fame player who broke baseball’s color barrier and Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey, who orchestrated the historic move with both pragmatic and noble intentions.
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What's my Line? Jackie Robinson




What's my Line? Branch Rickey



You can watch the original 1950 film in which he played himself, The Jackie Robinson Story with Minor Watson as Branch Rickey here on YouTube:


Meanwhile, the woes continue at Chavez Ravine

Los Angeles Times
Dodgers Blog
Attendance at Dodger Stadium continues to plunge
By Steve Dilbeck and The Times’ Dodgers reporters



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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Tape these political films tonight while you're watching Sarah Palin

American Politics in the Movies on TCM, promo video:
http://www.tcm.com/video/videoPlayer/?cid=210059&titleId=23008

You can always tape Sarah Palin's speech later on C-SPAN, which'll repeat it a few times overnight.

One things about The Candidate always struck me as curious.
Even as a kid when I first saw it at the theater in North Miami Beach, and still later while in Bloomington at IU, I always wondered why people thought Redford's enigmatic character of Bill Mackay was appealing, since he often seems like the sort of person who, in a real-life city, would always be THE last neighborhood activist holdout in getting an agreement done, because he'd always insist that others make compromises before he'd consider it, and then would raise the posssibility of just walking away from a deal, on principle.

In other words, he has a very high opinion of himself and thinks you should as well.

The Last Hurrah was said to be based on the popular persona of former Boston mayor
James Michael Curley, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Michael_Curley
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8:00pm
The Last Hurrah (1958) A political boss faces changing times as he runs for re-election.Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Pat O'Brien. Dir: John Ford. BW-121 mins, TV-PG

10:15 pm

The Candidate (1972) A senate candidate's ideals weaken as his position in the polls gets stronger.Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: Michael Ritchie. C-110 mins, TV-14
(Original Trailer) http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=210004&eref=newsletter

12:15 am

The Best Man (1964) Two presidential hopefuls get caught up in the dirty side of politics.
Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Lee Tracy. Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner. BW-102 mins, TV-PG
(Original Trailer) http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=207801&eref=newsletter

2:00 am
Nashville (1975) Country music stars get caught up in tangled affairs and an independent's political campaign.
Cast: Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Ronee Blakley. Dir: Robert Altman. C-158 mins, TV-MA
Film clips at http://www.tcm.com/video/videoPlayer/?cid=138591&titleId=84580 and

http://www.tcm.com/video/videoPlayer/?cid=138592&titleId=84580

4:45 am

The Dark Horse (1932) A political machine backs a dimwitted candidate for governor.
Cast: Guy Kibbee, Bette Davis, Warren William. Dir: Alfred E. Green. BW-75 mins, TV-G
(Original Trailer) http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=132404&eref=newsletter