The term "divine inspiration" gets thrown around quite a bit, but in the case of Breaking the Press, which screens Saturday May 1st at the 40th Annual USA Film Festival in Dallas, the expression could not be more appropriate. For it was after listening to The Prodigal Son parable at the local area Highland Park Methodist Church that writer-director Andrew Stevens decided to retell the tale as a high school basketball film, co-financing the effort with fellow churchgoer Charlie McKinney.
Drew Waters (Friday Night Lights) stars as Joe Conaghey, the father and team basketball coach, while Tom Madden and Chad Holbrook play the parts of his adopted sons. Many of their basketball playing co-stars were recruited from the Heroes Foundation, a youth sports organization founded by McKinney with ties to Mark Cuban and Dallas Star Mike Modano. Actor-turned-producer Stevens, who scored a Golden Globe nomination for his 1978 debut The Boys in Company C, has proven to be a remarkably prolific producer, starting in 1997 with the Warner Bros affiliated Franchise Pictures.
[Andrew Stevens Entertainment]
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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