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Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures’ Jackie Robinson biopic 42 will be released April 12, 2013, three days before the 66th anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Famer becoming the first black player in Major League Baseball. Warner Bros made the announcement today. Harrison Ford stars as Dodgers GM Branch Rickey and Chadwick Boseman plays Robinson. Brian Helgeland is directing from his own script. Shooting is set to begin next month in Alabama, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tenn., where that city’s Engel Stadium will stand in for the Dodgers’ former New York home Ebbets Field. Christopher Meloni and T.R. Knight co-star.
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Somewhere, Spike Lee is deeply unhappy.
Spike is always unhappy.
Coltrane is right on this for sure. The whole reason Spike agreed to do Inside Man was so the studio would fund the Jackie Robinson biopic he wanted to do.
He’s been trying to get it off the ground for over a decade now. Not that he should have automatically been handed this one but I’m sure he’s feeling something similiar to when Michael Mann did Ali.
Problem with Spike doing a film like this is he would automatically bring divisive racial baggage (based on his previous films) to a project that if handled correctly, colud be enjoyed by all races.
I’m certain I speak on behalf of the majority of moneymakers in this town (re: America) when I say nobody is particularly upset Spikie is making one less movie. If you watch his last three narrative features back to back (including that train wreck he “screened” at sundance three months ago) you’ll get it.
Spike and Redford should go have a drink together and talk about how they both got screwed out of this project. Tull is classless and I look fwd to this great project being ruined by Helgeland. Welcome to Hollywood.
As a fellow filmmaker I’ll wait for Spike Lee to tell the story. I’m not terribly interested in who played or is going to play Branch Rickey (those films are for the families of Robert Redford & Harrison Ford). We have enough white versions of every story already out there, this isn’t the Rickey Branch story, how ludicrous.
let me just say that Spike Lee SHOULD have done this movie. Instead, as a white American, I’m disgusted by this fairy tale. As I said in the review, history rides in the back of the bus here.
You have black children so perfect that you wonder why they’d ever need a hero. The worst they experience is a cruel look now and again. Otherwise it’s all smiles and lack of want. Stereotypes magnified in ways I didn’t even think Hollywood could pull off.
Absolute trash.