Stanley Tucci may be a great actor, but lately, he's proving himself to be one helluva salesman. Earlier this summer he shopped a project around town called "Mommy & Me" that eventually landed at Sony and got Meryl Streep and Tina Fey attached. Not too shabby. Now he hopes to work the same magic, and he's currently out knocking on doors with a new project under his arm.Tucci is hoping someone will want to help him make a biopic on vision-impaired sports journalist Ed Lucas. At the age of 12, Lucas was hit by a line drive while playing baseball but then went on to become an award-winning reporter on the Yankees and New York baseball.
Legendary screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel ("City Slickers," "A League Of Their Own") have written the script which is nauseatingly being described as a cross between "The Soloist" and "Scent Of A Woman." The pitch being made is that Tucci would star and possibly direct the film, and would produce through his Olive Productions.
Baseball movies are a notoriously hard sell in Hollywood because they have little international appeal. That said, casting a sports story through an inspirational secondary figure is definitely an intriguing angle, and certainly one that worked in spades for "The Blind Side" last year. We'll keep an eyes on this, but after watching "Easy A," we want Tucci (and Patricia Clarkson's) next roles to be playing our new Uncle and Aunt.
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