John Scotts underdog All-Star story to become movie Mitch Al

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The popular tale of John Scott's sudden ascension from workaday brute to NHL All-Star Game MVP seemed fit for a Hollywood screenplay since the moment it climaxed in Nashville last month.
Ready the Josh Jones Jerseys box offices, because John Scott: The Movie is happening.
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Mandalay Sports Media, aproduction company responsible for other sports titleslike "Coach Carter," "Hardball"and "Radio," Tuesday it has acquired the rights to Scott's story. The feature-length film, which has not yet been given a title, will be produced byMike Tollin and Jon Weinbach, withDetroit Free Pre s columnist Mitch Albom writing the script.
Albom said he first approached Scott about a po sible movie deal well beforethe All-Star Game on Jan. 31, butnever expected what happened next.
The narrative has been well-told by now, but the synopsis is this: Scott, he of five career regular-season goals and 542 penalty minutes, was made an All-Star by popular demand only to be told he wouldn't be allowed in the game after Zach Ertz Jerseys some internal meddling from NHL executives.
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Eventually, fans got their wish to see Scott play. He rewarded them with a pair of goals, and he David Wells Jerseys rewardedthe league with its highest All-Star Game TV ratingin history.
To boot, Scott's wife, Danielle, delivered twins le s than a week after the game.
Scott's agent, Ben Hankinson, told reporters earlier this month that moviedeals flooded in in the days after the game.Albom's background covering hockey in Detroit gave the MSM group a leg up.
We had an inside track because of Mitch, but this became a bit more expensive for us because there were so many bidders, Tollin said. Id just returned from the Townie screening of 'Eddie The Aeneas Williams Jerseys Eagle,' where the longest of long shots prevailed, and where I saw the crowd there just eat it up. I got home, and sat and watched the All-Star Game and said to Mitch, all he has to do is a little something and weve got our third act.
"Two goals, MVP, carried off on the shoulders of the players, with this great image of his very pregnant wife in the stands? We feel like this NFL Arizona Cardinals Jerseys has studio potential, and well develop the script ourselves but we will be in touch with our pals at studios to share our feelings about the commercial prospects of this.
Tollin recently finished production for his latest film, "The Bleeder," whose plot centers around an underdog boxer played byLiev Schreiber.Schreiber has a history in hockey movies, playinghulking enforcer Ro s Rhea in the 2011 hockey cult cla sic "Goon." He also was the narrator for HBO's popular "24/7" documentaryseries produced ahead of the Winter Cla sic.
The 6-8, 270-poundScott, who recently returned from paternity duty to take up his post with the St. John's (Newfoundland) IceCaps in the American Hockey League, said last week that Schreiber would be hispersonal pick to play him.
The guy from 'Goon' would probably be perfect, but hes already spoken for, so Im going to have to Arizona Cardinals Jackets look somewhere else," he said.
Tollin didn't divulge any further details about casting or when the film would go into production, but he said it will go to the top of his list.
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John Short, Jr