Mini-post: Jackie Robinson biopic... by wongoz

Just a quick post... Over on Cinematical, a blog about movies, there was a recent post about a biographical movie on Jackie Robinson, the first African-American player in major league baseball. I love sports movies, and since the post says that the producers of Ray are involved and Robert Redford is directing... well, hell, sign me up right now. Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier for all pro sports (ok, maybe not boxing), and for that reason alone, I'll be there. But to involve those heavyweight talents... yeehaw!

But my main comment is this: Besides the fact that Ray was a kickass movie and Jamie Foxx absolutely deserved his Oscar, he also looked a lot like Ray Charles. So if physical resemblance is anything of a requirement for the role of Robinson, I don't see how anyone except Larenz Tate gets the gig. Check the post and tell me that doesn't look like him. He's a good actor, maybe underrated, but there's not a lot of dramatic roles in his body of work, so that just might be his ticket to a Foxx-like breakout performance.