Unstoppable (a film about Anthony Robles, ASU's one-legged wrestling champion)

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Ben Affleck, Matt Damon to produce film about Arizona State legend Anthony Robles; Jennifer Lopez expected to star​



Hollywood stars and longtime friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have teamed up with Amazon to produce a movie about former Arizona State University wrestler Anthony Robles.

In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning this past weekend, Affleck said Artists Equity, a new production company started by Affleck and Damon, is, “just getting rolling on working again with Amazon, to do the story of a wrestler named Anthony Robles, who was born with one leg and won a national championship for Arizona State."

Their company has produced the upcoming film "Air,'' about how Nike developed the wildly popular Air Jordan brand by pursuing Michael Jordan in his rookie year in 1984.

Robles currently is the head wrestling coach at his alma mater Mesa High School and also has made a career in giving motivational speeches.
 
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As an ASU grad and someone who follows our athletes and their stories, I really wanted to like this more than I found myself liking it. It really wasn't as much about Robles and his amazing wrestling career as it was his home life. It wasn't really all that much about his wrestling at all and if you watched this and knew nothing else about him, you'd think he barely wrestled from the end of his high school career until his senior season at ASU. He was an amazing wrestler despite having only one leg and put up unbelievable numbers in both high school and college and I don't think viewers are going to come away from this film realizing that at all.
 

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