'Secretariat' Gets More Solid Cast Members
Filed under: Drama, Sports, Casting
Get ready for the sports waterworks, folks. Back in June, Jenni Miller wrote about the latest horse racing drama to cook up -- Secretariat, with Diane Lane attached to play the thoroughbred's owner, Penny Chenery. Now the major players are in place, and there's no doubt that Disney is prepping this is a big sports drama. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Dylan Walsh, John Malkovich, and Scott Glenn have joined the production, which began shooting this week.Secretariat was the horse that broke a 25-year Triple Crown dry spell, setting world records and winning the final Belmont Stakes with an eye-goggling 31-length win (in other words, so far ahead that the horses behind look teeny). He's pretty much the horse amongst race fans, and is known for having the biggest recorded heart (22 lbs). But it all started with a coin toss.
THR says Glenn will play "a southern-bred aristocrat who loses the horse in a coin toss," although that's not quite how it plays out. Glenn must be Ogden Phipps, and as the story goes, there were coin tosses to discern who would get what horse. Phipps won the toss, but Penny Chenery scored an unborn foal in the deal who turned out to be Secretariat. Walsh will play Penny's husband, "a successful attorney who is accustomed to his wife being at his beck and call," and who is, undoubtedly, in line for a wake-up call. Finally, John Malkovich will play a trainer who underestimates the horse's power (Lucien Laurin?).
And they're off!
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9-22-2009 @ 4:19PM
Angel said...
Sounds like a good cast but didn't Seabisquit come out not to long ago? Five years ago? More? I'm not in the mood for a horse racing movie. You?
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9-22-2009 @ 7:17PM
Laurie said...
Great cast, which is a relief. Secretariat's story is a great one that needs to be told, but Disney so often blows it. Seabiscuit is small in scope in comparison to the true story of Secretariat - "The" horse. If they blow this, alot of people will be pissed.
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