Gridiron Gang Page #5

Synopsis: In the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, the supervisor and former football player Sean Porter sees the lack of discipline, self-esteem, union and perspective in the teenage interns and proposes to prepare a football team to play in one league. He is supported by his superiors and his successful experience changes the lives of many young kids.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Director(s): Phil Joanou
Production: Sony Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%
PG-13
Year:
2006
125 min
$38,432,823
Website
4,495 Views


And you, Willie. Madlock, Perez, Kelvin.

It's up to all of you. Then we'll find out

what this team is made of.

You gotta imagine there's a goal post

right there to the right and to the left.

Good job!

Everybody in. Take your helmets off.

Circle it up. Circle up the wagons.

Bring it in. Bring it in.

Great practice, great practice.

Take a knee.

Next time you put those helmets on,

it'll be for real.

Learn your assignments, get ready.

- Madlock.

- That's my homey, man.

These are your homeys. You're not gonna

do 'em any good in the box! Sit down!

Chill, man.

Yo, whatch'all niggas lookin' at?

Y'all a buncha busters and sh*t!

Doin' everything they tell you.

Run, jump, roll over. Like little pets.

Little p*ssy pets.

Man, shut the hell up, Peavy!

Yeah, you the p*ssy.

Man, you ain't got half-a what it takes

to play football.

Keep walkin', Peavy.

What's up, Mustangs?

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Take it easy, yo.

I got injuries.

Hey, Junior, what's up, man?

That's enough, though.

When I was in the hospital,

I thought a lot about you guys, man.

The team.

How you guys are like my family.

And I wanted to show my family

what I could do.

I just wish I could play witchu guys

on Saturday, man.

But I'll be there.

I know you guys are gonna kick ass, right?

Bring it in, y'all, come on.

- Let's do this.

- Let's do it.

I want it loud and clear.

Mustangs on three. One, two, three!

Mustangs!

Come on, guys! Let's do this!

That's what I'm talkin' about! Let's do it.

We got a ass-kickin' for Barrington

waitin' for 'em.

We're gonna see

what you're made of, Weathers. On the bus.

Y'all ready, baby?

Evans.

Still wanna be a Mustang?

Of course I do. But I can't fulfill

the physical requirements, Coach.

Evans, you don't have to be an athlete

to be a Mustang.

Look at me.

You just gotta have heart.

I know you have heart.

We could use an equipment manager.

You interested?

Hell, yeah, I'm interested!

Come on.

Can I get

one of these Mustang shirts, though?

Oh, it's a lot of fabric, but yes.

Gimme some time to find your size.

Hey, Mustangs.

Meet the new equipment manager, Evans.

I'm tellin' you, Barrington about to get their

ass whooped when we step on the field.

'Ey. Don't forget,

you work for me now, Jermaine.

Sh*t, man, long as I don't gotta run,

I'll call you "boss," homey.

You know what I'm sayin'?

Hey! Look at the girl in the Mustang.

Where?

Damn!

Hey, I'd like to run a quarterback sneak

right into your end zone!

Hey, she wavin' at me! She wavin' at me!

She want me bad!

Jesus Christ, man.

You got this all messed up.

How many times we do this in practice?

All right, bring it in. Let's go.

This is it. The day you been waitin' for.

I know you're nervous. So am I.

My first game too.

Now it's time to go out there

and put it on the scoreboard.

Now it's time to see who has the heart.

Now is the time to prove to yourselves

and prove to everyone out there

that even though you're locked up,

you are somebody.

And you are worthy of something!

And you're able to do something special

that no one else in the world can do,

which you can walk through those doors,

hold your heads up high

and call yourselves Mustangs!

Are you ready to go out there

and take what's yours?

Yeah!

What you've worked hard for?

Yeah!

Are you ready to accept

the Mustang challenge?

Lead us!

Lead us!

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome

the undefeated Barrington Panthers.

Let's go, Mustangs.

Let's go, let's go.

Now, gather in. Hands in.

Hands in. Hands in.

I wanna see everybody's eyes.

Everybody's eyes.

You get out there on that field

and you earn their respect.

Mustangs on three. One, two, three!

Mustangs!

Kickoff team. Kickoff team.

Let's go, Mustangs.

Let's go! Let's go!

Nail that son of a b*tch. Let's go, Kelvin.

Kelvin! Great hit! Great hit!

Madlock! Madlock!

Set the tone! You set the tone!

Set hut!

Fumble! Fumble!

First down!

Fumble recovery, number 31, Kelvin Owens.

That's what I'm talkin' about, Madlock.

Great job, Kelvin.

We bad, we bad, we bad.

Offense, get out there.

Ace, right cross! Let's go.

Leon, come here.

C'mon, listen. Pro right 25, toss.

C'mon. C'mon, damn it! Let's go!

Oh, sh*t!

- Hustle up!

- Go!

Pro right 25 and stuff.

Willie, run their asses over.

Run their asses over. It's all you.

Show 'em what you're made of.

Green 18!

Green 18!

Hut!

Yeah! Go Panthers!

Good run. Good run. Right, let's get up.

Walk it off.

Tackled by number 55, John Stevens.

Welcome to my world, boy!

- Coach said to throw a 97 pass.

- Pass?

Yeah, man, 97 pass.

Yeah, man, what the hell is wrong with you?

You ain't never thrown a pass

in a real game, have you?

Naw, I played games. I played Madden.

What? This ain't EA, homey.

- A video game?

- I controlled the quarterback. What?

That ain't football.

- Man, come on. 97 what?

- 97 pass.

97 pass right now is what we about to do

and I'mma throw it.

- 97 pass. On one. Ready?

- Break.

Green 18!

Green 18!

Hut!

Throw the ball! Throw the ball!

Son of a b*tch!

First down, Barrington Panthers.

Leon! That's okay! Get it behind you!

What happened, dawg?

Let's go!

Coach, I suck, man. Just take me out.

Hey. No. Not gonna take you anywhere,

do ya understand?

I ain't takin' you out

and you ain't quitin' on me. Ya hear me?

You can do it. Now, come on.

Get your head in the game.

Come on. Come on.

Defense! Just get the ball back!

Get the ball back!

Set! White 20!

Hut!

Trouble, he's open! He's open!

Whose man is that? Number three!

Number three! Kelvin!

Touchdown, Panthers.

Hey! I wanna see some hittin' out there!

Set!

Black 20!

Black 20!

Hut!

Perez, you can't catch?

What's up?

You can't hit me in my chest, dawg?

- You coulda dove for that.

- That was too low, man.

- You coulda caught the ball.

- Just gonna push me like that?

Hey! Stop fightin' amongst yourselves.

Take it out on the enemy, for chrissake.

Catch the ball.

Down, set! Hut!

He's open! He's open!

Come on, Mustangs!

Touchdown, Barrington.

That was a 50-yard completion

by number 18, Michael Hays.

Damn, man.

Bates, you supposed to cut

when you see that dude cut, man.

We gettin' worked, man.

And that's halftime

with the Barrington Panthers leading 21

and the Mustangs 0.

Told you guys they wanted

to kick your asses.

That's exactly what they're doin'.

I've seen only two or three hits out there!

Linebackers, defensive backs,

they're runnin' right over you!

You're titty dancin' with 'em!

Defensive line! You're standin' up,

that's why they're takin' your legs out!

Madlock, come here!

You're standin' straight up!

If ya jam on him, you get your hands

on him, use upper body violence,

throw their ass to the dirt

and make the tackle!

And if you get your hands on the ball,

hang on to it.

Don't give it back!

Come on, baby! Let's go!

Let's go, Leon,

let's get 'em back in the game.

Get 'em back in the game, Leon!

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Jeff Maguire

Jeff Maguire (born 1952) is an American screenwriter.Regarded for his talent for writing sports films, Jeff Maguire got his first screenwriting break with his script Escape to Victory, a film about soccer directed by John Huston in 1981. His most recent contribution is Gridiron Gang, released in 2006. Maguire's most famous film is In the Line of Fire starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, for which he received a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for 1993. In 1990 Maguire was approached by producer Jeff Apple to develop his Secret Service agent concept into a film treatment. Maguire was in debt to his relatives and about to have his utilities turned off when his script based on Apple's concept, "In the Line of Fire," went into a bidding war between Tom Cruise, Sean Connery, and Clint Eastwood. When he received a call from Eastwood congratulating him on the completed deal (over $1,000,000.00) Jeff's wife reportedly had to return a dress so they could afford to go out to dinner to celebrate. Prior to this, various moguls had rejected and almost destroyed the story. Dustin Hoffman cleverly added the hero's guilt over failing to save JFK, then exited; Tom Cruise's people demanded this be deleted, because a 28-year-old hero would not have been around for JFK. The dead-broke writer spurned about $100,000 from Cruise, but wound up with Clint Eastwood and about $1,000,000.Jeff Maguire is a graduate of Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, Maguire was once a railroad worker, a waiter, and a volunteer counselor with Mother Teresa's group, Missionaries of Charity, in the Pico-Union section of downtown Los Angeles, working primarily with Hispanic gangs. In the 1980s and 90s, he also frequented the famous Manhattan Beach, California video store Video Archives, where future filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary were clerks. Today, Jeff Maguire is a follower of Meher Baba and has contributed to the Meher Baba journal, Glow International.Jeff Maguire appears in In the Line of Fire briefly as a secret service officer running alongside the president's limousine. more…

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