Howard Baldwin, a producer on "Ray," has come aboard as a producer on Robert Redford's untitled feature about baseball star Jackie Robinson in which Redford will star as Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey reports Variety.
Story will track Robinson's upbringing in Southern California and center on the relationship between Robinson and Rickey. Robinson started for the Dodgers in 1947, enduring death threats, beanballs, abuse from fans, a rebellion by some of his teammates and the threat of a strike by the St. Louis Cardinals.
Emmy-winning scribe Kirk Ellis ("Anne Frank") will script. Redford has been developing the pic for the past year through his Wildwood Enterprises and Deep River Prods.
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