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Robert Redford is going back to baseball again.

The “Natural” star has signed on to an untitled film by Legendary Pictures involving the historical drama about the Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey and baseball player Jackie Robinson.

Rickey was known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier by signing the league’s first African-American player Jackie Robinson.

Brian Helgeland will write and direct the film. Helgeland wrote the screenplays 2010’s “Robin Hood,” “Man on Fire,” “Mystic River,” and “A Knight’s Tale.” His last directorial film was with 2003’s “The Order.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, the untitled film will “look less at the specifics of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier and more at the complex relationship between Rickey, who scholars believed integrated baseball for reasons of both idealism and economics, and Robinson, the second baseman who faced tremendous discrimination when he signed with the Dodgers system in 1945.”

“No one really knows the Rickey part, the political maneuvers and the partnership they had to share,” said Redford to the Los Angeles Times. “It’s the story underneath the story you thought you knew.”

The part of Jackie Robinson has not been cast at this time.

Warner Brothers Pictures has a first look deal with Legendary Pictures for the project. The two companies have a long history of co-financing film projects including “The Dark Knight,” “The Hangover,” and “300.”

Source: Los Angeles Times

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