'Lost' star Fox huddles on football picture
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'Lost' star Fox huddles on football picture
Wed Feb 1, 2006 02:13 AM ET
By Borys Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Lost" star Matthew Fox is joining
Matthew McConaughey in the untitled college football drama from "Charlie's
Angels" director McG.
The Warner Bros. project is about events following the 1970 plane crash that
killed members of the West Virginia-based Marshall University football team,
along with most of its coaching staff, sports commentators and many of its
local boosters.
McConaughey already has been cast as a determined coach named Jack Lengyel,
who tries to rebuild the team. Fox is playing coach Red Dawson, who works
with Lengyel.
"Marshall" will be Fox's first studio endeavor since he did Disney's "My
Boyfriend's Back" with newly minted Oscar nominee Philip Seymour Hoffman in
1993. Since then, Fox found prominence in television, first with "Party of
Five," then with 2004's "Lost." Starring as Dr. Jack Shephard in "Lost" has
garnered Fox a Golden Globe nomination for best actor in a television series
(drama) as well as a SAG Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble,
which he shared with his "Lost" castmates.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter