There's going to be a Disney movie based on Secretariat?
 

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That sounds kind of cool. Good exposure for horse racing if its turned into a Disney movie

Disney=crap.
Disney movies=crap.

Unless, of course, you like the feel good endings that are appealing to five year olds.

Though the Disney episode of South Park a few months ago, with the Jonas Brothers, that was awesome!

Screw Disney!!!! we get to watch horses breaking down w/a peta message at the end?

Most movies are crap with feel-good endings. Look at the Rocky series. I just find it hard to believe that Philadelphia actually has a Rocky statue.

Zac Efron is set to play Ron Turcotte.

Dixie Doodle is set to play either Onion or Angle Light. His owner wants him to portray Onion.

I like Diane Lane though. :D

That southpark episode was in instant classic. Mickey was a true bad ass

To make it more dramatic, they will probably have Secretariat come from like 20 back to get Twice a Prince at the wire (ala Seabiscuit another true life scenario :rolleyes: )

Agreed. Horse racing can't get too much good general public exposure.

What's the matter with her? How could she not appreciate the sextoy Oliver-what's-his-name in Unfaithful? That man was so hot I forgot his last name.

I'll go see it, but unless Diane Lane is naked in this one, too, fat chance the ball-and-chain will go with me.

In all seriousness, I'll be interested to see what they do with the film. Dramatically speaking, it's not necessarily the most interesting story (I don't mean it's not interesting in real life, just from a dramatic structure standpoint). Hmm... maybe they'll have to have Diane Lane be naked in this one after all. If so, I'm sure the ball-and-chain will be first in line. ;)

Oliver Martinez :{>:

Maybe they can create some drama from the Preakness time controversy.

Better yet, and this is a side issue, there is always the involvement of Claiborne Farm and Seth and Arthur Hancock. The syndication of Secretariat would have been a big move for anyone, much less the young Seth Hancock, who had not been in charge for very long. After Sunday Silence won the Derby, Arthur Hancock supposedly said that Ogden Phipps had taken away his dream of running Claiborne, so now he had taken away Phipps' dream of winning the Derby.

They may focus somewhat on Penny C's dad, Christopher Chenery, who had bred many outstanding horses, including champions, but hadn't bred/owned a Kentucky Derby winner. How they did a 2-year foal-share with Claiborne in order to breed to Bold Ruler; Claiborne won the coin toss and got the first foal, an unplaced filly named The Bride, and the Cheneries got the second foal, Secretariat. Then Dad dies; family worried they will have to sell the farm to pay the estate taxes, or sell their most valuable asset, Secretariat. Claiborne steps in and sets up the syndicate so that Big Red can still run in the old man's colors. Then, tear-jerking time, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown, was the great horse that the old man had always tried to breed and he didn't live to see triumph. Penny chokes up, accepting the Eclipse awards in her father's memory. Cue sloppy Tchaikovsky-type music.

Has anybody read the book on Secretariat that focuses on Eddie Sweat?

i wonder why it took so long to make a movie about the greatest race horse?

They're making a movie about Curlin?

yeah, diane lane is going to play barbara banke. maybe clint eastwood as jess jackson?

Who gets to represent the phen-fen crowd?

Will PG1985, or tenmostwanted01, or whatever his name is, get to play Ass?

with pg's skills, i'd think he'd play a top handicapper...

Yeah, you should have seen this PM he sent me prior to the Phipps where he tried to tear into me for knocking Music Note, before the race.

I thought it might be BTW or DrugS just trying to be goofy at first, but then she lost by 10 and things started coming together.

I wonder if there's ever been a bigger horse racing message board tard than him.

and of course he sent another PM after saying he was wrong, right?? :p

I just reread his PM. He actually gave out the winner!

lol
a new angle to use.

Good job!

--Dunbar

If anyone cares, here's the cast.
Principal photography is underway for Walt Disney Pictures' "Secretariat," the story of the legendary Triple Crown-winning horse and his owner Penny Chenery. The film will be shot on location in Kentucky and Louisiana.

The film is directed by Randall Wallace ("The Man In the Iron Mask" "We Were Soldiers,") and stars DIANE LANE ("Nights in Rodanthe," "Untraceable," "Unfaithful") and JOHN MALKOVICH ("Burn After Reading," "Changeling"). Based on the remarkable true story, "Secretariat" chronicles the spectacular journey of the 1973 Triple Crown winner. Housewife and mother Penny Chenery (Lane) agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (Malkovich) - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years and what may be the greatest racehorse of all time.

The cast also includes DYLAN WALSH (TV's "Nip/Tuck," "The Lake House," "We Were Soldiers") as Chenery's skeptical husband, and DYLAN BAKER ("Spider-Man 2," "Spider-Man 3," "Revolutionary Road") as Chenery's brother, a Harvard professor who questions her abilities. MARGO MARTINDALE ("The Savages," "Million Dollar Baby") portrays Chenery's assistant, and NELSAN ELLIS ("True Blood") plays Eddie Sweat, Secretariat's groom. OTTO THORWARTH, a real-life jockey who, through mid-July 2009, had more than 1300 wins, portrays Ron Turcotte, Secretariat's famed jockey. FRED THOMPSON ("Law & Order," "Die Hard 2," "In the Line of Fire") plays Bull Hancock, a master horse breeder who was president of the Racing League and a friend of Chenery's father. SCOTT GLENN ("The Bourne Ultimatum," "Nights in Rodanthe," "W.") plays Chenery's father, and AJ MICHALKA ("Aly & AJ" group) portrays her daughter. KEVIN CONNOLLY ("Entourage") and ERIC LANGE ("Lost") are featured as the reporters who first recognize Secretariat's potential, and JAMES CROMWELL ("24," "W.") portrays a wealthy financier and pillar of horse racing.

Director Wallace is an Oscar®- and Golden Globe®-nominated screenwriter ("Braveheart"). The film is produced by Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray, who founded Mayhem Pictures ("The Rookie,""Miracle," "Invincible,"). Mike Rich ("Finding Forrester," "The Rookie," "Radio") wrote the screenplay. The creative team also includes Academy Award®-winning cinematographer Dean Semler ("Dances with Wolves," "We Were Soldiers," "Apocalypto," the upcoming "2012"), production designer Tom Sanders ("Saving Private Ryan," "We Were Soldiers," "Apocalypto," "Eagle Eye"), costume designer Michael Boyd ("Gettysburg," "We Were Soldiers"), and editor John Wright ("X-Men," "The Passion of the Christ," "Apocalypto," "The Incredible Hulk").

Secretariat Movie Trailer
 

Battaglia sighting.

I love the subtitle: "Based on the impossible true story." Yeah, rich heiresses owning racehorses is just what I think of when I think of impossible true stories. ;) Which is not to say Penny Chenery is not a class act all the way; just that I find it funny when movies attempt to build lots of struggle-against-the-odds drama into the life stories of the superwealthy.

That said, I'm already trying to figure out babysitting options for opening weekend so I can go see it. Heh.

The Horse that God Built...read it over the winter.

It was okay. Eddie Sweat certainly loved the horse. Lived a tough live there at the end.