Kari Skogland (“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”) has signed on to direct characteristic movie “Dallas Sting,” a few group of feminine highschool soccer gamers from Dallas who went as underdogs to a event in China in 1984 and, extremely, ended up beating a few of the greatest girls’s groups from world wide. Deadline broke the information.
Primarily based on a real story, the drama is scripted by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, who beforehand labored collectively on “GLOW,” “Nurse Jackie,” and this yr’s Apple TV+ collection “Roar.”
“In 1984, President Reagan made a concerted effort to open relations with China. China in flip invited America to ship its U.S. Ladies’s Soccer Workforce to the primary world championship they had been holding for ladies’s soccer. There was just one downside – there was no U.S. Ladies’s Soccer Workforce,” particulars the supply. “A nationwide search led officers to a 19-and-under league of Dallas highschool ladies who referred to as themselves The Sting, after the current Robert Redford-Paul Newman hit film.”
Matthew McConaughey is on board to star because the group’s coach, Invoice Kinder, “who had no prior expertise teaching soccer earlier than he shaped the group — the story of how this passionate group of younger girls bought to China was miraculous. And what they did in opposition to the world’s high girls’s groups from China, Australia, and Italy — comprised of grown girls who performed collectively for years — was nothing in need of a miracle.”
The characteristic has been in growth with Skydance and Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter’s (TV’s “Supergirl, “Batwoman”) Berlanti Schechter Productions, and a distribution deal is predicted to be made earlier than the movie goes into manufacturing within the fall. Deadline beforehand shared that the 2 corporations had gained a film public sale and purchased an unpublished article concerning the soccer group, again in 2020. Stated Schechter then, “The story exhibits how girls have been and nonetheless are handled poorly world wide in sports activities in comparison with their male counterparts. To see what The Sting did with little help and no cash, intertwined with how these very totally different younger ladies meshed for the love of the game and nation, is one thing stunning that deserves to not be misplaced to historical past.”
The U.S. girls’s nationwide group — which has since gone on to realize Olympic and World Cup dominance within the sport — performed its first match in 1985.
Skogland, who helmed Marvel collection “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” has intensive TV directing credit which additionally embrace episodes of “Concern the Strolling Lifeless,” “The People,” and “The Handmaid’s Story.” She can also be set to direct the Gal Gadot-starring “Cleopatra” pic, stepping in for the beforehand connected Patty Jenkins.
No phrase but on casting for the teenager roles in “Dallas Sting.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood