[SivVulk]

How many of you here are familiar with the story of the Edmonton Grads basketball team ?

For those that haven't heard of them they were a amature women's team that went on to dominate basketball during the inter war years.

These are some of their more notable accomplishments:

The team compiled a record of 502 wins and 20 losses between 1915 and 1940

In 1923 the Grads defeated the Cleveland Favorite Knits 53-33 in a two-game tournament. They successfully defended the title until 1940 at which point the trophy was declared their permanent possession.

At the Olympic games of 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936, the Edmonton Grads represented Canada in the demonstration basketball tournaments. In all of their 27 matches they were victorious.

Now the NFB did make a documentary called "Shooting Stars" but it's hard to get a hold of.

Anyways... who would you like to see cast in a movie or tv show adaptation? I ideally would like to see Paul Gross direct or at least play the part of Percy Page (the coach).

[Guy_Fawkes]

No, and definitely no if that hack Gross is it. They already have a baseball movie about women from that time period, "A league of their Own."

[SivVulk]

A League of their Own was set during the eve of World War II not after WWI. I also don't get why we should deny the making of a movie about a Canadian basketball team just cause Tom Hanks and Geena Davis starred in a movie about women's baseball.

Yes the movies would share similar themes but even from a cynical point of view, the movie industry is all about rehashing plots and spitting out new movies. Authors and comedians are guilty of it too and if you want to get really cynical, I submit this quote by Willa Cather:

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."


Regardless, the Edmonton Grads are a Canadian icon in sport (not just women's sport) that should be honoured.

[Guy_Fawkes]

It's hard enough to get people to watch women's basketball now, let alone a movie about it being played closed to 100 years ago by women. Rehashing plots is a bad thing, and part of that is what is killing Hollywood now, a lot of the shit they produce now should have had the scrips burned long before production (come on a movie about Battleship?). I'm sure they have been honored, but wasting money by making a movie no one will watch is not a better way of honoring them.