So many of the current generation of players & coaches are influenced positively by Rudy that it’s probably time to start thinking about a next gen movie.
Of course, winning another national title (or two) may mitigate the need for this.
But this former screen writer always interested in ideas.
1) Chris Zorich story is one I thought might have some resonance. At least as I tell the story in my head.
2) Fever Pitch (Notre Dame addition) which is a love story set against the backdrop of ND and ND football. Would help if Nd wins another Nat’l championship (like The Red Sox did as the Farrelly brothers movie wrapped).
3) Thom Gatewood story.
4) Notre Dame-Bama—1973 Sugar Bowl set against first black player at Bama (71), Watergate, Vietnam, and other storylines.
5) USC-ND 1967–OJ kills someone to get on the team and poisons the starting RB to get introduced in second half. It’s a love story.
6) (new)—Indian kid in Britain grows up wild for America and ND football in early 80s London—something he shares with grandmother who barely speaks English, but who learns football terms. She saves enough secretly through gambling to buy them trip & tickets to 1988 National Championship game. Where they take a road trip from LA out RT. 66, losing the tickets in Vegas, they get to the game and through an Indian-America security guard— getting into ND’s locker room to celebrate with the team.
7) (new) All the Right Moves meets Remember the Titans meets Hillbilly Elegy.
HS star in rural Kentucky shares ND dreams with father. Desperate to get out is his town and dead end future, he wants to be an engineer. When father dies, he has to work, and gets recruited to play on college intramural team and gets noticed by local priest who helps the intramural team. Priest tutors him and tricks him into taking SAT and gets ND recruiter to come watch game between HS team & intramural. Girlfriend gets pregnant however. so he thinks its his last game. ND offers PPO and engineering scholarship and he and girlfriend have a moral dilemma. The last scene is him running out of the tunnel at ND with the team. He watches the game—until the end, he turns to stands and points to his girlfriend / wife in the stands with their young child—he turns back and coach asks him to go into the game. End.
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