Things are moving along for a local screenwriter’s movie about a Stanley Cup-winning Boston Bruins legend.
Casey Sherman, one of the Boston-based authors behind the books that later became “The Finest Hours” and “Patriots Day,” has written and is set to produce “Turk,” a film about Bruins center Derek Sanderson.
Sanderson, who rose to prominence during his Bruins career, earned Rookie of the Year honors during the 1967-68 season and assisted Bobby Orr’s Stanley Cup-winning goal in 1970. But due to alcohol and drug addiction, Sanderson’s career and life cratered and, by his own account, he was left penniless and sleeping on park benches.