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EXCLUSIVE: The Lord of nan Rings character and SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin is starring pinch Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos) and Isabel DeRoy-Olson (Three Pines) in Will Rogers-inspired precocious schoolhouse sports drama Will To Win.
The task is nan the first movie to beryllium endorsed by nan family of early Hollywood icon Rogers, nan celebrated vaudeville performer who was calved arsenic a national of nan Cherokee Nation and became known arsenic “Oklahoma’s Favorite Son.” By nan mid-1930s, Rogers was 1 of nan highest-paid stars successful Hollywood, but he died successful a level clang that aforesaid decade.
Will To Win centers connected a young Chickasaw softball subordinate (DeRoy-Olson) who, aft losing her parents, moves to a caller schoolhouse pinch nary softball team. She alternatively joins nan boy’s shot squad nether nan tutelage of a compassionate coach (Astin), only to go nan target of a schoolhouse committee president (Piven) who wants to spot her removed. Soon, done her vivid imagination, she originates having conversations pinch Will Rogers, who offers her guidance connected really to flooded life’s challenges. Indigenous character Stefany Mathias (Prey) will play nan girl’s grandmother, while Bracco will play nan grandmother’s friend who questions really nan woman is being raised.
Sean McNamara (Reagan) will nonstop from Aaron Fulkerson’s script, which was adapted from a book of nan aforesaid sanction by writer Jim Stovall (The Ultimate Gift).
The task heralds from Kirkpatrick & Kinslow Productions, successful relation pinch Brookwell McNamara Entertainment. Filming is underway successful Vancouver, British Columbia and Oklahoma.
Producers are Russ Kirkpatrick, Andy Kinslow, Mark Heidelberger, Sean McNamara and David Brookwell. Jhane Myers (a shaper on Prey and Native advisor on 1883) is executive-producing. Chickasaw Nation Productions (Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher) is collaborating pinch producers connected nan project.
“We person this awesome book combining nan persistence of nan quality tone pinch nan wit and contented of Will Rogers,” said McNamara, “and pinch this cast, nan movie is really going to shine.”
Will Rogers’ family typical and great-granddaughter, Jennifer Rogers Etcheverry, antecedently said of nan project: “While we person been approached galore times successful nan past astir producing movies, this is nan first clip nan family has endorsed a movie project. We are thrilled to spot that audiences successful nan 21st period will study astir nan effect of Will Rogers connected nan world.”
Astin is repped by Stewart Talent, Luber Roklin Entertainment and Brecheen Feldman. Piven is repped by CESD. Bracco is repped CESD and Circle M+P. DeRoy-Olson is repped by Red Management, Authentic Talent & Literary Management and McKuen Frankel Whitehead. Mathias is repped by Integral Artists and Open Entertainment.
