A Hollywood filmmaker is planning to make a movie about Al McGuire and his triumphant final season at Marquette.
https://www.tmj4.com/sports/hollywood-filmmaker-to-commemorate-marquettes-1977-championship-with-mcguire-biopic
They don't know who will play McGuire yet, so get your suggestions ready!
Quote from: MU82 on December 01, 2025, 04:55:13 PMA Hollywood filmmaker is planning to make a movie about Al McGuire and his triumphant final season at Marquette.
https://www.tmj4.com/sports/hollywood-filmmaker-to-commemorate-marquettes-1977-championship-with-mcguire-biopic
They don't know who will play McGuire yet, so get your suggestions ready!
Wojo
Huh.
https://www.mcguiremovie.com/producers
Quote from: Pakuni on December 01, 2025, 05:00:14 PMHuh.
https://www.mcguiremovie.com/producers
Thanks for posting that, but I'm not getting what the "Huh" is referencing.
Quote from: MU82 on December 01, 2025, 05:03:35 PMThanks for posting that, but I'm not getting what the "Huh" is referencing.
lol I understand
Quote from: MU82 on December 01, 2025, 05:03:35 PMThanks for posting that, but I'm not getting what the "Huh" is referencing.
DM'd you.
I understand, too. If an actor is to play Al he should be Anthony Crivello.
Quote from: Pakuni on December 01, 2025, 05:00:14 PMHuh.
https://www.mcguiremovie.com/producers
Well this is a movie I shall not be seeing
Quote from: Pakuni on December 01, 2025, 05:00:14 PMHuh.
https://www.mcguiremovie.com/producers
lol. Yeah...
Quote from: Pakuni on December 01, 2025, 05:00:14 PMHuh.
https://www.mcguiremovie.com/producers
Wonder how many times he'll change his name in the credits during production.
Quote from: Jables1604 on December 01, 2025, 07:01:46 PMWonder how many times he'll change his name in the credits during production.
Are we sure those are all different people
Here I thought the only movie Chicos Bail Bonds was associated with was The Bad News Bears.
Quote from: Gato78 on December 01, 2025, 05:07:59 PMI understand, too. If an actor is to play Al he should be Anthony Crivello.
Yes. He was terrific in the one man play, McGuire by Dick Enberg. He was also in my first logic class I taught at Marquette!
Quote from: MU82 on December 01, 2025, 05:03:35 PMThanks for posting that, but I'm not getting what the "Huh" is referencing.
There's a Chicos on the Producers list.
Quote from: MU Fan in Connecticut on December 02, 2025, 04:26:53 AMThere's a Chicos on the Producers list.
Yeah, it took me awhile because I don't know Scoopers' real names, but I finally got it.
I've gone from looking forward to the movie to not a shot in hell of seeing it.
You guys will all cut off your noses to spite your faces.
I don't care who's making it or investing in it, I want to see it. And I bet I'll enjoy it.
Quote from: BrewCity83 on December 02, 2025, 09:53:52 AMYou guys will all cut off your noses to spite your faces.
I don't care who's making it or investing in it, I want to see it. And I bet I'll enjoy it.
Sounds like you're a traditional movie watcher.
Quote from: MU82 on December 02, 2025, 09:45:03 AMYeah, it took me awhile because I don't know Scoopers' real names, but I finally got it.
I've gone from looking forward to the movie to not a shot in hell of seeing it.
I've sleuthed out a handful on Twitter. People's writing styles are usually ubiquitous across social media platforms, so I tend to pickup on the familiarities from time to time.
Quote from: MU82 on December 01, 2025, 04:55:13 PMA Hollywood filmmaker is planning to make a movie about Al McGuire and his triumphant final season at Marquette.
https://www.tmj4.com/sports/hollywood-filmmaker-to-commemorate-marquettes-1977-championship-with-mcguire-biopic
They don't know who will play McGuire yet, so get your suggestions ready!
Josh Lucas or Matthew McConaughey. The old arena is still there so they can film some scenes there.
what is the chicos lore Im missing here?
Which one is chicos lol, he still owes me $200!
Quote from: MU82 on December 01, 2025, 04:55:13 PMThey don't know who will play McGuire yet, so get your suggestions ready!
Adam Sandler. Good think they didn't announce this last year, it probably would have been Whoopi Goldberg.
Quote from: muwarrior69 on December 02, 2025, 12:48:02 PMJosh Lucas or Matthew McConaughey. The old arena is still there so they can film some scenes there.
not on a $6mm budget
Quote from: #UnleashNigel on December 02, 2025, 02:23:37 PMWhich one is chicos lol, he still owes me $200!
Last 30 seconds of the video.
I predicted that as soon as Chicos stopped spending 23 hours a day posting here, he would go on to great things.
Quote from: #UnleashNigel on December 02, 2025, 02:23:37 PMWhich one is chicos lol, he still owes me $200!
He owes me $$$ too. He loved to make bets; he didn't have the same love for paying them off after losing.
All joking about producers aside, my real question about the project is: Is this really a story worth telling? Off the top of my head, I can think of a few that would be more compelling from a narrative and commercial standpoint - Jim Valvano and NC State's tourney run, John Thompson building Georgetown into a powerhouse, the real story behind Wooden's UCLA program. Al's is an interesting story, but the people behind it are maybe a little too close to the material to look at it objectively.
Also, reading the proposed story structure, it sounds a little silly. He's gonna go to confession to talk about how he's sorry he got a technical in a game, and then we'll see a flashback? I recall an interview with Al where he said he "dictates" basketball, and in the famous SI article about Marquette, he talked about how people thought his team was wild and out of control, but really, everything was meticulously practiced. It doesn't seem very believable or true to the man at all to have him going to confession and admitting his guilt about how he handled a basketball decision when he clearly had an ego about his coaching abilities (which is fine, he backed it up). Just seems like one of those things where the writers thought it would be an easy and funny way to tell their story, but won't work in the execution.
I think the best way to tell this story would've been to make a 30/30 about 15 years ago, when most of the key players or people who'd met him were still alive, or at least 15 years younger. Maybe if this film was done in the style of "Winning Time" (minus the Adam McKay stink) it could work. As proposed, it just doesn't sound very good.
Michael Keaton
James Franco
Quote from: CTWarrior on December 02, 2025, 02:25:29 PMAdam Sandler. Good think they didn't announce this last year, it probably would have been Whoopi Goldberg.
Adam Sandler is one of the cousins actors in the world, and that is saying something.
Quote from: willie warrior on December 05, 2025, 05:20:23 AMAdam Sandler is one of the cousins actors in the world, and that is saying something.
Yes. What you are saying is incomprehensible, but yeah...it's something.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on December 05, 2025, 06:36:33 AM
you must have missed the myriad of posts that accuse me of being Chicos then!
Quote from: Billy Hoyle on December 05, 2025, 09:41:16 AMyou must have missed the myriad of posts that accuse me of being Chicos then!
What's a Chicos?