Matthew McConaughey stars in Kari Skogland's football film Dallas Sting
The film's plot is reportedly based on the true story of how a group of Dallas high school girls traveled to China in 1984 as the ultimate misfits, beating some of the top Chinese women's teams from Australia and Italy.
Production on the project begins this fall in New Orleans. Skydance's David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will produce with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Robbie Rogers.
Michael McGrath is executive producer. These producers won a film auction to buy an unreleased Flinder Boyd item.
Written by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, the drama stars McConaughey as Bill Kinder, a coach who leads a ragtag group of Texan teenagers to a Rocky-like destiny. Long before the US women's national team achieved Olympic and World Cup dominance, the Dallas Sting came along.
US President Reagan reportedly made a concerted effort to establish relations with China in 1984. China, in turn, invited America to send its American women's soccer team to the first-ever Women's World Cup.
There was only one problem - there was no American women's soccer team. A nationwide manhunt led officials to a group of 19-year-old Dallas high school girls who dubbed themselves The Sting, after Robert Redford and Paul Newman's recent hit film.
Led by Kinder, who had no football coaching experience before the team was formed, the story of the arrival of passionate young women in China was a miracle.
And what she did against the world's best women's teams from China, Australia and Italy, made up of adult women who have been playing together for years, reportedly bordered on a miracle.
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