Disney and Mandeville Films have acquired the life rights of precocious football-playing brothers Dennis and Derrick Johnson to develop into Supersize. Bring It on Again writers Mark and Brian Gunn will pen the script.
The film will follow boys who pass themselves off as high school students. Dennis and Derrick saw their football debut in the second and third grades, respectively, when their dad, a high school football coach, decided to put them into the end of a game with a lopsided score.
In 1992, seventh-grader Dennis started for his Harrodsburg, Ky., high school team, inspiring a state law that barred boys younger than the ninth grade from playing ball.
Dennis is now on the Arizona Cardinals squad, while Derrick was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
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