A new trailer for Champions shows Woody Harrelson as a disgraced coach leading a basketball team to the Special Olympics. Watch it here:
Focus Features dropped the trailer for their inspirational sports film Champions, a story of basketball and redemption starring Woody Harrelson as a disgraced minor league basketball coach. After being fired from his job and several other missteps, he's left coaching a team of intellectually disabled basketball players as part of his community service. Despite his initial misgivings about the team, however, he realizes how far he might be able to take them.
After another miserable performance, an on-court spat with another coach , and a disgraceful appearance on SportsCenter, Marcus Marakovich is at his lowest until he crashes into the back of a police cruiser. He gets a break in court by only having to do community service, though he's not particularly sensitive to his new team. Initially, he thinks they're uncoachable and has real trouble not calling them a particular "boo-boo word" that starts with an r.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Champions is just one of a number of titles on the docket for the Academy Award-nominated Harrelson. He'll next be seen in the miniseries The White House Plumbers in 2023, and he's also aboard Laura Chinn's debut feature Suncoast which is currently in post-production. He, Olson, and Hudson lead a cast that also features Cheech Marin, Matt Cook, and Madison Tevlin.
Harrelson has dabbled in production more often as of late with projects like The Freak Brothers and the upcoming The White House Plumbers, and he'll once again take on an executive production role here in addition to starring. He joins fellow executive producers Brad Kessell, Alexander Jooss, Álvaro Longoria, Javier Fesser, and Luis Manso. Paul Brooks, Scott Niemeyer, and Jeremy Plager are also on board as producers.
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