Wouldn't it be great to have a movie produced about OU?

[basel90]

Wouldn't it be great to have a movie made about an OU legend player or coach, or a specific sooner team or tradition ? . I have seen many sports movies and i would think there would be plenty of real stories to be told .
There are great movies such as Rudy and others about college football and basketball .

It would add to OU's national image and i bet it would help in recruiting and adding to OU's national and international image. Why not? There are some famous oklahoma directors and am sure producers , not to mention actors . I graduated from OU in the nineties and am stationed abroad. I think OU deserves more PR and national and international attention /appeal than it is getting . Oklahoma is considered the top college football team according to many experts. I think OU's board and boosters and Alumni business leaders should look into this idea .Has this been considered before ? A great idea would be a movie about the winning streak (47) ,or a great overachieving player, coach etc..
why can't boren and the regents be more creative?

[Jacie]

Bob Stoops:
Well, boys ... I haven't a thing to say.
Played a great game...all of you. Great game.
(He tries to smile.)
I guess we just can't expect to win ‘em all.
(Bob pauses and says quietly.)
I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years --
None of you ever knew Brent.
It was long before your time.
But you know what a tradition he is at Oklahoma...
(There is gentle, faraway look in his eyes as he recalls the boy's words.)
And the last thing he said to me -- "Bob," he said -
"sometime, when the team is up against it -- and the
breaks are beating the boys -- tell them to go out there
with all they got and win just one for Brent...
(Bob's eyes become misty and his voice is unsteady as he finishes.)
I don't know where I'll be then, Bob", he said - "but
I'll know about it - and I'll be happy."

[LASooner]

Had Jason White won the Big 12 and NC game in 2003, he would have been the perfect subject for such a movie. But you have to win the last game.

[Jacie]

Friday Night Lights was a pretty good sports movie and that team did not win the last game . . .

[Jacie]

Friday Night Lights was a pretty good sports movie and that team did not win the last game . . .

[Scott D]

This thread lost credibility when the suggestion was made that Rudy was anything other than a god awful piece of crap that should have been left on the cutting room floor.

[MamaMia]

I had to look at the date this thread was posted. I was surprised. If we would have played for the National Championship during the year of #12...now 'that' would have made a great movie.

[basel90]

This thread lost credibility when the suggestion was made that Rudy was anything other than a god awful piece of crap that should have been left on the cutting room floor.

come on , Rudy was a good movie !

[Eielson]

I'm going to have to agree with the Scott D on this one.

Also, if a movie was produced about OU, it would probably have a lot of inaccuracies to make the movie better. I would hate that.

[Scott D]

come on , Rudy was a good movie !

Rudy was the Pearl Harbor of sports movies.

[No1Better]

If they made a movie about the book, "The Undefeated", that would be a terrific story.

[GDC]

Some potential good OU movie topics

Bud Wilkinson
Joe Don Looney
Prentice Gautt
Marcus Dupree
Barry Switzer
Bob Kelso
The Game of the Century
Danny Hodge
Mark and Dave Schultz
Wayman Tisdale
2000 national championship season
the Selmon brothers

[StoopTroup]

I guess if you are going to throw in Dupree....you might as well toss in the King of Cars.

He's made his 3rd NFL Team Roster now....



Here's where he is calling to see if his Vette is waxed and ready for him after the game....



I can really see Rhett starring in Corvette Summer II.

[ouwasp]

Didn't Schnelly predict movies would be made about the rocket-rise of Sooner Football under his guidance? Too bad the title for a movie concerning his tenure has already been taken:

Gone With The Wind

[StoopTroup]

Didn't Schnelly predict movies would be made about the rocket-rise of Sooner Football under his guidance? Too bad the title for a movie concerning his tenure has already been taken:

Gone With The Wind

Or..."Put that in your pipe and smoke it"....lol

Howie tried to change our motto to "Crimson and get Creamed". I think he just had a really hard time understanding some of our Traditions.

[smackramensooner]

this group may be producing one of these series for OU...

http://www.definingmomentsua.com/

http://flashlightmediagroup.com/auburn/

http://flashlightmediagroup.com/olemiss/

[StoopTroup]

How to kill a tree and avoid a Felony in the SEC would make a great movie.

[Sooner70]

Although OU FB didn't start with Bud Wilkinson I've often thought a movie based on his coaching career would really be something to see, if done correctly. 47 game streak with Notre Dame bookends, Prentice Gautt and the integration thing, food poisoning in Chicage & all of that. Bud was so far ahead of his time, and he broke the coaching mold. A well dressed, eductaed, literate & mild mannered man, he was an innovator and changed the outside world's view of college fb and coaches.

[Harris County Sooner]

Joe Don Looney based on his biography, "Third Down and Forever"?

[StoopTroup]

Tommy Harris: How I ate lightning and crapped Thunder