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Affleck's Hoop Dream Dashed
Ben Affleck don't got game.
The Daredevil star has dropped out of Disney's Jerry Bruckheimer-produced hoops flick Glory Road over an apparent salary squabble.
Affleck was supposed to play Don Haskins, the Texas Western coach who made history in 1966 when his college basketball squad became the first all-black team to win the NCAA national championship. The film was written by Chris Cleveland and will be helmed by commercial director James Gartner.
The official line from Disney is that Affleck bowed out of the project due to scheduling issues. But, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Affleck bailed after failing to come to terms with the Mouse House on a profit-sharing deal. The actor stood to make $5 million on the film and was seeking a larger percentage of Glory's gross than Disney was willing to give.
With Affleck throwing up a brick, the studio is now reportedly setting its sights on Josh Lucas, best known as Reese Witherspoon's hometown love in 2002's Sweet Home Alabama.
Lucas recently costarred with Val Kilmer in 2003's Wonderland, a little-seen but well-regarded drama about legendary porn king John Holmes. He appears in next month's Around the Bend with Michael Caine and has several films in the pipeline, including the David Gordon Green's family drama Undertow and Lasse Hallström's An Unfinished Life with Robert Redford and Affleck's former fiancée, Jennifer Lopez.
Lucas is also trying his luck as a leading man with a starring role opposite Jessica Biel in the action-adventure flick Stealth, due out next summer.
Speaking of luck, Affleck's seems to have dried up when it comes to box office. His last three movies, Gigli, Paycheck and Jersey Girl, all tanked.
But offscreen is a different story.
Affleck surprised naysayers by winning the California State Poker Championship last month and pocketing a $356,400 purse. The victory ensures him of a slot in the World Poker Tour Championship.
Perhaps that's the scheduling conflict Disney was referring to. In any case, Affleck next appears in theaters in this holiday's Saving Christmas. He's currently working on the latest installment of his make-a-movie contest, Project Greenlight.
Disney, meanwhile, is holding auditions for African-American basketball players who want to turn their hoop dreams into big-screen stardom. Casting calls were held in both Los Angeles and New York over the last two weeks for black males between the ages of 20 and 25.
If producers can find a leading man, Glory Road is scheduled for release in 2005.
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