Bart Scott To Be The Subject Of A More Profane ‘The Blind Side’
Most of the film industry spends its time chasing projects that are derivative of recent hits rather than trying to develop possibly new blockbusters to come. That makes sense to some degree. It’s easier to make a modest to good profit with an idea clearly influenced by a hit than take a risk on something innovative that is difficult to market and therefore will be easy to ignore.
And so it is that a couple producers and a screenwriter are working to develop the life of Jets linebacker Bart Scott into a Hollywood biopic in the vein of The Blind Side, which (at least the film version) dealt with how now current Ravens tackle Michael Oher overcame a rough upcoming through the help of an adoptive family with close ties to the football program at Ole Miss.
Scott's upbringing was certainly turbulent enough, having grown up in one of the many rough areas of Detroit and having been raised by a mother who worked three jobs. Scott couldn't get a scholarship because of his SAT score and later went undrafted before earning a job in the NFL with an audition with the Baltimore Ravens. Horatio Alger would've eaten it all up, for sure.
Hopefully the script stays faithful to the coarse language typically used by Scott (in evidence in the clip from this summer’s “Hard Knocks” shown above), if for no other reason to keep Sandra Bullock as far away from the project as possible.
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