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EXCLUSIVE: Lou Diamond Phillips will both topline and co-write The Boys Of Eloy, based on the true story of a ragtag co-ed softball team in the prison town of Eloy, Ariz. Phillips, who currently stars in A&E’s Longmire as Harry Standing Bear, plays the coach who gets the team in shape and helps lead them to the 2000 Little League World Series of Softball. Michael Montijo and Noe Gonzalez co-wrote the screenplay with Phillips. The Boys Of Eloy will be the debut feature production for Montijo’s Majority Entertainment. Montijo, Phillips and Douglas Warner are producing. J.B. Roberts, Edward Michaels, and Michael Weiss are executive producing. Phillips is repped by Global Artists Agency and Thruline Entertainment.
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Saw this already, it’s called THE PERFECT GAME.
So excited to see this film. Not only am I a Lou Diamond fan, but I’m also from Eloy!!
The Perfect Game is a completely different story, maybe similar but not the same.
very excited to see this movie! Growing up in Eloy, weve always had an amazing softball teams and coaches ! In fact my sister was part of the world series team in 2000 and i myself took part in winning state championships in HS. What a positive and encouraging film to put out for our future leaders! job well done:)
I think it will be a good movie. Being from Eloy it will be good for the community but mostly the youth. I am hoping this movie will motivate kids to strive at a better future. Eloy needs this!
That’s awesome! I am also a hs softball champ and eloy is known for softball…i learned so much and now my 11 year old niece is being coached by the same coach who I started with,and also the coach who took this team to that world series
That is awesome! But…. they left out that this was a girls soft ball league and some boys found a loop hole for them to play against girls. Will they show that it was like 4 boys on a all girls team playing against other girls teams? I know that most of the Eloy people will hate what I’m saying but, it’s true. I think the honest truth of it would be a better movie/story.
I agree 100% with ur point of view. I myself was a candidate for this all star team, but due to my self respect then and now had to walk away from it. And 13 years later have no regrets. For the coach to state that he turned to boys due to a lack of females trying out is bs. I was one female who even if I chose to be part of the team wouldn’t of had a position. This was because the coach gave the only 2 positions I played to the boys! So glad that some do see the whole picture.
Crazy stuff….My position was also given to a boy..wow never knew the coach said that!
Wow
Johnny good point, put the truth out there, it was girls & boys on this team!!! Kinda embarrassing..
This is great that our story will be heard and seen. I was a part of that team and it was an amazing experience both negative and positive.
Will be interesting to find out how they show my old hometown..I grew up in Eloy..hope they don’t let us all down.
ELOY doesn’t look like a good or great place to live an raise children but I see that there is still a work hard winning ethic Eloy is really a rich small town in what has been experianced by so many indiviuals that had the oppertunity to grow up there. Eloy is a veritable gold mine of sports history and people who have become sucessful at many things in life.Hollywood need not look to find a small “prison” town that has produced some of the most awesome contributing members of society. I have been so blessed as to say i know several personally.Many others through association. I for one believe that Eloy isn’t the mosy attractive on the outside.But the beauty that lies just below the surface of a rich, rich history an the many who have been given the opportunity to mine it’s resources.Look deep Hollywood you will have so many excetional stories you would never search or struggle to find scripts,just for a writer to put it together.