A League Of Their Own director Penny Marshall is swinging away at a baseball biopic about Effa Manley, the sports trailblazer who became the first woman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Manley made history by rising in the ranks of the Negro National League in the 1930s and ’40s as a co-owner and business manager of the Newark Eagles, the team that went on to win the 1946 Negro World Series. Effa, which is gearing up to shoot in Savannah, Georgia early next year, will be financed and produced by Studioplex City LLC as the first in a two-picture deal the FONU2 subsidiary has signed with Marshall.
This used to be Marshall’s playground: She directed her way around a diamond in 1992’s A League Of Their Own, about the struggle to establish America’s first female baseball teams during WWII. The Effa project harkens to a...
Manley made history by rising in the ranks of the Negro National League in the 1930s and ’40s as a co-owner and business manager of the Newark Eagles, the team that went on to win the 1946 Negro World Series. Effa, which is gearing up to shoot in Savannah, Georgia early next year, will be financed and produced by Studioplex City LLC as the first in a two-picture deal the FONU2 subsidiary has signed with Marshall.
This used to be Marshall’s playground: She directed her way around a diamond in 1992’s A League Of Their Own, about the struggle to establish America’s first female baseball teams during WWII. The Effa project harkens to a...
- 12/11/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
The director of A League Of Their Own and Big has signed a two-film deal with Georgia-based FONU2 subsidiary Studioplex City, kicking off with a biopic about Effa Manley.
The film charts the rise to fame of the first woman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame who managed the National Negro League’s Newark Eagles in the 1930’s and 40’s.
Wendi Laski will produce. Marshall directs from a screenplay by Byron Motley and will serve as executive producer alongside Motley.
Studioplex City will finance and produce Effa, set to begin shooting in Savannah, Georgia, early next year.
“The film is about a strong woman who was ahead of her time, the history of baseball and the Negro Leagues,” said Studioplex City president and FONU2 chairman Jake Shapiro.
“We are proud to be working on such a meaningful project with such a powerful and talented director.”
“The story is a fascinating tale of a woman...
The film charts the rise to fame of the first woman to be inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame who managed the National Negro League’s Newark Eagles in the 1930’s and 40’s.
Wendi Laski will produce. Marshall directs from a screenplay by Byron Motley and will serve as executive producer alongside Motley.
Studioplex City will finance and produce Effa, set to begin shooting in Savannah, Georgia, early next year.
“The film is about a strong woman who was ahead of her time, the history of baseball and the Negro Leagues,” said Studioplex City president and FONU2 chairman Jake Shapiro.
“We are proud to be working on such a meaningful project with such a powerful and talented director.”
“The story is a fascinating tale of a woman...
- 12/11/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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