Luke Wilson, Greg Kinnear, Sarah Gadon, Molly Parker & Others Set For Santa Rita Film Co.’s Little League Baseball Movie ‘You Gotta Believe’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Luke Wilson (Horizon: An American Saga) and Greg Kinnear (The Present) are set to star in You Gotta Believe, a film based on the inspirational true story of Fort Worth, Texas’ 2002 Westside Little League team.
Others on board for roles in the pic from Santa Rita Film Co. include Sarah Gadon (Ferrari), newcomer Michael Cash, Etienne Kellici (Horizon: An American Saga) and Molly Parker (Deadwood).
Directed by Ty Roberts, who previously worked with Wilson on the Great Depression football drama 12 Mighty Orphans, the film currently in production follows a team of Little Leaguers who dedicate their season to a player’s dying father and, in the process, defy all odds to make it to the Little League Baseball World Series championship in a game that became an ESPN classic.
Wilson will play the role of the dying father, Bobby Ratliff, with Kinnear as Coach Jon Kelly. The film being produced and financed under the Texas-based Santa Rita Film Co.
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