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In case you were feeling like there just wasn't enough feel-good sports drama on the big screen, we're about to get a whole lot more. Variety reports that John Davis has teamed up with television producer Bruce Nash to develop a collection of sports-themed films that stem from Nash's "Amazing Sports Stories."
Davis got turned onto the idea after producing The Express, the story of Ernie Davis (the first African-American to win the Heisman). Mixing that with Nash, who has written a whopping 60 books on sports history, and we have a lot of sports drama in our future. Davis says that there are "so many untold triumph-of-the-human-spirit stories that just work so well for movies."

One idea is to focus on the story of Bert Shepard, the only one-legged MLB player. But these films won't just be solitary tales. Another idea on the plate is the story about how the Pittsburgh Steelers had to meld with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1943, when WWII made healthy players scarce.

Are there any stories you want on the big screen, sports fans?

Did you know that David Smart, the guy who founded GQ and Esquire, had a Howard Hughes-style germ phobia? Yeah, neither did I. I also had no idea that Smart founded those magazines, and am sort of at a loss as to why anyone would care. Josh Lucas and Bruce Nash care, though, and they're banking on the fact that millions of other will, too, because the two of them are producing Smart, a movie about the fellow.

According to an article in this morning's Variety (the headline of which is "Nash, Bridges get 'Smart'" -- who doesn't love a Don Johnson reference with their coffee?), Lucas' just-founded 2 Bridges Prods. will team with Nash Entertainment to produce the film, in which Lucas will play a supporting role (the role of Smart has yet not be cast). The screenplay for Smart was written by Charlie Peters (of, erm, Krippendorf's Tribe and Her Alibi fame), and is expected to detail the life of a man "whose life was almost entirely consumed by his germ phobia ... Meanwhile, he led an unorthodox personal life and was known for his womanizing and affinity for shirtless photos of himself." Now, I like phobias as much as the next girl, but how many times can you watch a guy bathe after sex? There must be something else going on in the movie, though, because Lucas' character is described as "a fictional FBI investigator who infiltrates Smart's world," and you know the FBI doesn't usually check out people who use excessive amounts of soap.