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10Jun2009

Diane Lane to Star in Secretariat Movie

DateWednesday, June 10, 2009 at 10:36PM
I guess all you can hope for is that you're not outshined by the horse: Diane Lane will star in one of those Based on Real Events movies when writer-director Randall Wallace (We Were Soldiers, the Braveheart screenplay) brings the story of Secretariat to theaters.

Secretariat won the Triple Crown of horse racing in 1973, and Lane will play his owner, Penny Chenery. No word yet on whether Hilary Swank will star as the Secretariat. The standard for this kind of movie is Gary Ross' pristine Seabiscuit, but this one has a slightly different perspective.

To begin with, the story is about the owner, Chenery, who knew very little about the racing game when she took over her father's horse farm and was pressured to sell Secretariat when the horse began to show promise.

Wallace is directing the film, and Mike Rich wrote the script. Wallace has been (or had been) working on the script for Atlas Shrugged, so, you know, counting grains of sand on the beach would seem like a much easier task after that.

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I hope the perspective will highlight Secretariat. I hope Wallace and Rich watch "Ruffian" written by Jim Burstein & Garret K. Schiff, directed by Yves Simoneau, it was a visual and emotional work of art done magnificiently in her memory. Seabiscuit wasn't really about the horse, it was about his owner and jockey's lives.

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