The script hails from the writing team of David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel, who penned Spike Lee’s Black Klansman, which sounds like it could be Lee’s first commercial hit since his 2006 heist movie Inside Man.
A struggling American sports agent mired in debt decides to take drastic action in order to save his business, by helping Cuba’s most famous baseball player defect to the United States. He soon realizes that he is entirely unprepared for what lies ahead, plunging into a world of traffickers, con-men and criminals. Based on the true stories of players who have risked everything to chase the American dream.
The 2013 New York Times best-seller by Casey Sherman is about notorious New England hitman Joe “The Animal” Barbozza and how he became the first gangster put into the Witness Protection Program.
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