Jerry Bruckheimer may be best known for producing some of the biggest action movies of the past couple of decades (Armageddon, Pirates Of The Caribbean and, erm, The Lone Ranger), but he's also been the man behind many a middling sports biopic. The last of these was the limp Glory Road, which documented the story of the first all-black American College sports team (Texas Western's 1966 Basketball squad). The film caused a bit of a stir for making real people appear racist in an attempt to up the drama, but it wasn't really worth the fuss; no one really remembers it. In the finished film Josh Lucas plays Don Haskins, the usual revolutionary coach who believes in people, but the role was originally taken by Affleck. Having worked with Bruckheimer on Armageddon, this could have been the sort of role to help put the Gigli debacle behind him. The stated reason Affleck left was that old doozy of scheduling conflicts, although subsequent reports suggest the studio wasn't going to offer him enough cash; Disney were only going to pay him $5 million. Daylight robbery or what?
