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Casey Affleck will bring to the screen Carl “Chap” Smith’s memoir ‘Death Row Chaplain’, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The “Good Will Hunting” co-star is producing a movie based on a man who went from criminal to clergyman at San Quentin, one of the most legendary corrections facilities in the country. His finding salvation after being shot six times led him to become the prison’s death-row minister, a position he held for an astonishing 23 years.
David Gould will write the adaptation. John Powers Middleton co-produces alongside Affleck.
The-faith based adaptation will largely focus on on “the redemptive powers of baseball behind the prison walls.”
In a racially divided and violent environment that was constantly on the boiling point, Smith founded and coached the San Quentin Pirates, a baseball team that seemed to transform the prison yard. But when conflict erupts and threatens to rip the team apart, Smith must manage a very complicated game with life-and-death stakes both on and off the field.
Acting wise, Affleck will soon be seen in “The Finest Hours”.
