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The Blind Side
Another football movie? Damn! Are these films really performing that well? Though I had figured Hollywood would become burned out on the recent slew of football films to enter theatres it turns out Fox is still in a huddle.
Fox to Adapt The Blind Side
According to Variety, 20th Century Fox has acquired the screen rights to Michael Lewis' latest book, The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game. The book takes a look at the race for ever-bigger players in professional football, in a heated bidding war that pushed the price past seven figures.
So, kind of like Two for the Money meets Gridiron Gang.
Michael Lewis got multiple offers on his latest tome and settled with Fox for $200,000 against $1.5 million and also includes $250,000 in deferred compensation.
Gil Netter will produce.
Though the book was only released at the beginning of this week, interest in the story was sparked when the New York Times Magazine ran an excerpt in its Sept. 24 issue.
Story, which was titled "The Ballad of Big Mike," centered on Michael Oher, a poor, undereducated 344-pound African-American teenager in Memphis, whose father was murdered and whose mother was a crack addict. Oher had been shuffled through the public school system, despite his 0.6 grade point average and missing weeks of classes each year. But his tremendous size and quickness attracted the interest of a wealthy white couple who took him in and groomed him both athletically and academically to become one of the top high school football prospects in the country.
Oher now plays left tackle Ole Miss, a position that is supposedly the second highest paid in the NFL; behind the quarterback.
Michael Lewis has had a long history with Hollywood through multiple studios.
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