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Pro Football Hall of Famer Kurt Warner s life is the focus of an upcoming Hollywood sports movie, American Underdog. And, based on a first-look clip posted for the movie Wednesday, the Green Bay Packers have a supporting role.
Maybe a better term would be rejecting role.
Warner s story as the star quarterback says in the clip posted by Lionsgate has long been thought of as made for Hollywood. He was signed by the Packers in 1994 but was cut before the season started. For a while, he worked stocking shelves at an Iowa grocery store before he was signed by an Arena Football League team, the Iowa Barnstormers. In 1998, he landed a spot as a backup quarterback with the then-St. Louis Rams; a year later, the team s starting quarterback was injured in a preseason game, Warner got the job, and improbably led the Rams to victory in the Super Bowl.
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Cruella is a completely unnecessary movie. I know it is. You know it is.
It’s the latest in a long line of films and TV shows designed to tell us about the secret origins of beloved figures from earlier stories, in this case Cruella de Vil, the memorably fur coat-obsessed villain of Disney’s 1961 animated film
. Cruella’s origins lie in Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel
Why do we need to know more about the origins of Cruella, this time played by Emma Stone? Isn’t it enough to know that she wants to make a fur coat out of Dalmatians for some unspecified reason? Can’t the fact that she is a former classmate of Anita (the woman who owns Perdita, one of the two Dalmatians that kicks off the plot of the original story) be enough to serve as an inciting incident? What purpose is served by filling in the backstory about who Cruella is, what motivates her, and where she comes from? She hates puppies! That’s plenty! Why spend a gobsmacking 137 minutes on this? A Cruella de
‘Cruella’ First Reactions: A Bold and Wicked Disney Origin Story Starring Emma Stone IndieWire 6 days ago
Early word is in for “I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie’s flamboyant spin on the origin story of iconic Disney villain Cruella de Vil, and the film looks to be a winner. Emma Stone is being praised for her wicked twist on the “101 Dalmatians” villainess. Emma Thompson is also being singled out for her turn as Baroness von Hellman, the head of a swank fashion house and also a renowned haute fashion legend. Check out first reactions below.
Disney’s synopsis for “Cruella” reads: “In 1970s London, young fashion designer Estella de Vil becomes obsessed with dogs’ skins, especially Dalmatians, until she eventually becomes a ruthless and terrifying legend known as Cruella.”