While the Golden Knights continue to fight for their Hollywood ending, everything that’s transpired during this unprecedented, frankly unbelievable season feels ripped from any number of real-life sports movies, from “Hoosiers” to “Friday Night Lights” to the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s triumph in “Miracle.”
“The whole canon of sports stories, this is the thing. This is what they are,” screenwriter turned UNLV film professor Sean Clark says of the underdog tale. “Rarely do you have the story of the juggernaut that can’t be stopped.”
Should Hollywood come calling for the Golden Knights’ movie, here are some ideas for its stars:
Brad Pitt as George McPhee
Pitt knows how to play a general manager who brings together an out-of-nowhere success story, having portrayed the Oakland A’s Billy Beane in “Moneyball” despite looking nothing like him.