Glen Powell, Richard Linklater Teaming Up for Lou Gehrig Biopic, Lorne Michaels Producing

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Richard Linklater and Glen Powell are re-teaming to take on the Pride of the Yankees. The pair, who previously collaborated on “Hit Man” and “Everybody Wants Some,” will join forces on an untitled Lou Gehrig film for Universal Pictures. 

Gehrig is a Hall of Famer whose durability and endurance on the field (he played for a then-record 2,130 consecutive games) earned him the nickname “the Iron Horse.” A legendary slugger, his career was cut short when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). His farewell address to a sold-out crowd at Yankees stadium in 1939, in which he declared himself “the luckiest man on the face of the Earth,” has been dubbed “baseball’s Gettysburg address.” Gehrig died in 1941 at age 37. His story was previously dramatized in 1942’s “The Pride of the Yankees” with Gary Cooper playing the sports icon.

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