Kurt Russell is no stranger to sports movies, and now he’s signed on to indie movie **Touchback to play a high school American footie coach for director Don Handfield.
Touchback sounds like it blends the Dennis Quaid baseball pic **The Rookie **(down-on-his-luck sports type gets a second chance) with 17 Again (lead gets transported back to a younger version of himself and starts to change his life decisions) as it finds Brian Presley as a small-town farmer/volunteer fire fighter who can’t stop dreaming of the moment his football career was cut short by an injury. He snatches the chance to decide between what he has and what he could have become when he’s thrown back to the fateful instant.
Melanie Lynskey and Christine Lahti are also already on board the film, which has just hired the talents of cinematic sports co-ordinator Mark Ellis, the man who gave movies such as We Are Marshall and Invincible convincing footie scenes.
Handfield, who also wrote the script, has kicked off work on the film this week in Michigan.