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Untitled Jesse Owens Bio

Release Date: Spring/Summer 2008

October 25, 2006
Mackie on Track to Play Owens

Anthony Mackie (Half Nelson; We Are Marshall) will play track and field legend Jesse Owens in a biopic that will begin shooting next summer. James L. White (Ray) wrote the story that tracks Owens' rise to international stardom at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where German leader Adolf Hitler watched him win four gold medals.
Source: Variety

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