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Matthew McConaughey’s upcoming Texas-centric movie Dallas Sting has been abruptly scrapped six weeks before it was set to start production, according to Deadline.
The film was described as an inspirational tale based on the story of the Dallas Sting girls soccer team, which became the first American team, male or female, to win a major international tournament in China in 1984.
McConaughey was set to star as coach Bill Kinder, the Oklahoma native who brought the 19-and-under Richardson-based club to China to represent the U.S. in the first FIFA-sanctioned world women’s tournament. Despite their underdog status, the Texans won, beating out teams from Italy and Australia.
Full details about the decision to pull the plug “weren’t yet forthcoming,” according to Deadline, but the decision came “over an impropriety that [production company] Skydance and the producers were made aware of. After they investigated, the allegations were serious enough to get them to pull out of the movie.”
Along with Skydance, McConaughey has also left the project.
Kinder founded the Dallas Sting in 1973. “At that time, girls sports really in a way were verboten,” Kinder told The Dallas Morning News in 2015. “For the most part, people just didn’t think girls should be doing athletics at all”
The film was expected to start production this fall in New Orleans, Deadline reported previously, with Kari Skogland (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) directing from a script by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch (Roar). Kaitlyn Dever (Justified) had signed on to play Kinder’s daughter.
“The story shows how women have been and still are treated poorly around the world in sports compared to their male counterparts,” said producer Sarah Schechter in 2020. “To see what the Sting did with little support and no money, intertwined with how these very different young girls meshed for the love of the sport and country, is something beautiful that deserves not to be lost to history.”
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