McGuire biopic coming

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Which one is chicos lol, he still owes me $200!

Last 30 seconds of the video.

[Mutaman]

I predicted that as soon as Chicos stopped spending 23 hours a day posting here, he would go on to great things.

[MU82]

Which 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.

[Biggie Clausen]

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.

[patso]

Michael Keaton

[PBRme]

James Franco