42

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Product Description
Academy
Award®
winner
Brian Helgeland (“L.A. Confidential”) wrote and directs “42,” a drama
that
follows the powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball
player
who broke Major League Baseball’s color line when he joined the roster
of the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
The film stars Chadwick Boseman (“The Express”) as Robinson, who
became the first African American to be signed to Major League
Baseball, and
Oscar®
nominee Harrison Ford (“Witness”) as the Dodger’s
general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed
Robinson to
the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show.
The main cast also includes Nicole Beharie (“Shame”) as Rachel
Isum, who would become Robinson’s wife; Christopher Meloni as Leo
Durocher;
Andre Holland as Wendell Smith; Lucas Black as Pee Wee Reese; Hamish
Linklater
as Ralph Branca; Ryan Merriman as Dixie Walker; and T.R. Knight as
Harold
Parrott.
“42” is produced by Thomas Tull, with Dick Cook, Jon Jashni, and
Jason Clark executive producing, and Darryl Pryor and Jillian Zaks
serving as
co-producers. Helgeland’s behind-the-scenes collaborators
include
Oscar®-nominated
director of photography Don Burgess (“Forrest
Gump”), production designer Richard Hoover, costume designer Caroline
Harris,
and editors Kevin Stitt and Peter McNulty. The music is composed
by Oscar®
nominee
Mark Isham (“A River Runs Through It”).
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures present a Legendary
Pictures Production, “42.” Slated for release beginning April 12,
2013,
the film will open in time to commemorate the 66th
anniversary
of Jackie Robinson Day—April 15, the date of his first game as a
Brooklyn
Dodger—and on the heels of the opening of the 2013 Major League
Baseball
season.