EXCLUSIVE: Surviving members and relatives of the famed Black Spartans want a movie about the 1966 college football co-champions consigned to the sidelines. “This letter is directed to variou…
our clients’ input or approval and in violation of their rights to publicity and privacy and in defamation of their characters.”script we cannot identify with more particularity any defamatory material,” attorney Devin McRae goes on to say on behalf of 1965 and 1966 Michigan State University Football players Gene Washington, Jimmy Raye, the late Bubba Smith, Bob Apisa and their families.
The partner at Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP also noted inconsistencies, misrepresentations and getting it “exactly backward” in pages from theis based in part on David Claerbaut’s 2018 bookOn the field as Civil Rights legislation and protests were transforming America in the 1960s, the Duffy Daugherty-coached Michigan State Spartans were the first fully integrated college football team in the nation.
Jones, Jimmy V McDonough, Casey Cott, David Brown, Rochelle Claerbaut, Ruve McDonough, Justin Oates-Marable produced the film, with Cory Wharton serving as EP. Making the stakes of the matter and a looming lawsuit crystal clear, attorney McRae also states in his letter of September 13: “Our clients were already exploited once for their race and talent, we fully expect that a court will not permit it to happen again inReps for the film’s producers did not respond to request for comment from Deadline today. We will update this story if and when we receive a statement.has Nicholson playing Raye.
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