When it comes to being like Mike, the play's the thing.
As in the screenplay.
Sports Illustrated reports 20th Century Fox has purchased a moviescript titled "Like Miko." The plot involves a teenager who receivesa pair of Michael Jordan basketball shoes, discovers their magicalpowers, becomes a star and leads the Bulls to a title. Obviously thework of a fiction writer.
Rap star Lil' Bow Wow is up for the starring role. Jordan has notcommitted to the project.
"I'm hoping he'll be in it," screenwriter Michael Elliot said ofJordan, whose "Space Jam" was a box-office success.
Failure is well-documented in Boston, where the Red Sox have notwon a World Series since 1918. (They sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in1920 so owner Harry Frazee could finance the musical "No NoNanette.") Last Friday in Boston, a baseball musical-"The Curse ofthe Bambino"-opened.
Bo Eason, brother of former Illini and NFL quarterback Tony Eason,may have a play heading to Broadway in the fall, SI reports. Theformer Oilers defensive back's "Runt of the Litter" is asemiautobiographical tale about living with a domineering father andstruggling in the shadow of his brother. It is not a musical.
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