Director Brian Robbins is returning to sports movies for the third time in a row, after covering high school football in Varsity Blues and professional wrestling in Ready to Rumble . Likewise, Keanu Reeves has the football movie, The Replacements , on the way later in 2000. Other cast and a production date should be announced soon. Two Chicago men about whom the original book was written, are suing Paramount Pictures over this movie, according to The New York Daily News . More controversy swirls around this project.
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There's been no indication of any plans to change the dialogue, so we should find out what all the fuss is about when the film hits theaters. Paramount has settled upon September 14th.