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Bad News Bears is a 2005 American sports comedy film directed by Richard Linklater, written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden and Sammi Kane Kraft. It is a remake of the 1976 sports film The Bad News Bears, produced by Paramount Pictures. Unlike the original film, it received mixed ...
Jul 22, 2005 · “Bad News Bears” screenwriters John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (“Bad Santa”) initially included the insults in the remake’s screenplay. When the scene was finally read aloud by the actors ...
Jul 18, 2021 · In 2005, Richard Linklater helmed a remake of the 1976 baseball film starring Walter Matthau, “The Bad News Bears.” Linklater’s version (sans the word ‘the’), had Billy Bob Thornton on the lead; and with just a few changes in the story, went on to become a fairly faithful remake of the Bill Lancaster-penned classic.
John Requa (born January 1, 1967) is an American screenwriter (with Glenn Ficarra) of Cats & Dogs, Bad Santa and the 2005 remake Bad News Bears . Requa and Ficarra directed Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor in their screenplay I Love You Phillip Morris. [1] For their writing on this film, Requa and Ficarra received a nomination for the Writers Guild ...
Jan 18, 2006 · Bad News Bears is, after all, the third ... Glenn Ficarra and John Requa — the former of whom penned the 1976 film upon which this remake is based, the latter of whom penned, you guessed it, ...
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Bad News Bears: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sammi Kane Kraft. A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.
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Jul 21, 2005 · Ironic, then, that the film is nonetheless appreciably funnier and more profane than its ’70s-era ancestor. Written by Bad Santa scribes Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, Bad News Bears establishes that, though the f-bomb may be verboten in PG-13 films, the words “shit” and “ass” are fair game, and Linklater and company take advantage of this ratings-board paradigm by crafting what may ...
