Roberto Clemente Biopic In Works Based On Book By Baseball Icon’s Family, 50 Years After Tragic Death
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Baseball icon Roberto Clemente is getting the biopic treatment from producer Jonah Hirsch (Resistance: 1942, First) and actor/producer AJ Muñoz in collaboration with the Clemente family.
The as-yet-untitled film will be based on the family’s best-selling book Clemente: The True Legacy of an Undying Hero. The announcement comes on the heels of the 50th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Pirates MLB All-Star’s passing, and the recent news of select Florida schools removing books on Clemente’s life.
The film will showcase Clemente’s rise to greatness against all odds and tell his inspirational life story inclusive of both his baseball career as well as his fight for Latin American equality and social justice.
By acquiring the life rights to Clemente as well as the family-authored book, Hirsch and Muñoz alongside the legend’s sons Roberto Clemente Jr.
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