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17.05.2023 - 06:07 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Alba (Sin City), Russell Harvard (Fargo), and Daniel Durant (CODA) are attached to star in sports feature film Flash Before the Bang, inspired by the true story of an all-deaf high school track and field team in 1980’s Oregon.
The film heralds from deaf writer-director Jevon Whetter, on whose experience the story is based. Oscar winners Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are exec producers along with Fanshen Cox from their Pearl Street Films banner. Jessica Alba is also an exec producer.
Production is due begin in September in Georgia on the project, in which more than half of the characters in the ensemble cast will deaf and portrayed by deaf actors. Brothers Jevon and Delbert (producer) Whetter are from a multigenerational deaf family, while actors Harvard and Durant are also deaf.
The Exchange is introducing the title to international buyers at the Cannes Film Market this week with UTA Independent Film Group representing U.S. rights.
Based on real events, the story centers on a bullied deaf track runner who seeks opportunity at a high school for the deaf – but his hopes of glory are dashed by the unmotivated team and a deaf coach in the throes of a mid-life crisis. The underfunded, overlooked team will have to dig deep to overcome adversity at every turn in their attempt to seize an unprecedented victory at the 1986 Oregon State Track and Field Championship.
Flash Before the Bang will be the second film to implement the inclusion rider for this executive-producing team, after Damon and Affleck’s sneaker movie Air did for the first time this year.
Pic is being produced by Delbert Whetter and John D. Eraklis (Bunyan and the Babe) of Exodus Film Group, Mary Aloe (Bruised) of Aloe Entertainment, and Tiffany
You have to have a thick skin when you’re an actor and auditioning.
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