Unleash the Mules Movie Updates

Sun., Nov. 24, 2013

from The Hollywood Reporter

Joe Roth to Produce Blind Wrestlers Drama 'Unleash the Mules' at Sony (Exclusive)

Sony has picked up Unleash the Mules, inspired by a real story of a team of blind wrestlers.

• added Sony Pictures as a distributor
• added Columbia Pictures as a production company
• added Roth Films as a production company
• changed the production status to Announced
• added Joe Roth as producer to credits
• added true story as genre
• added a synopsis

• In 1956, Henry Lebash, chafing to leave his teaching job at the Missouri School for the Blind for a gig at up-and-coming IBM in California, nevertheless agrees to create a wrestling team before he leaves. During the course of the season, he is inspir... show all ed by a blind teen student named Luke Whitman, and becomes a committed and passionate coach, launching a career in the sport. Whitman, meanwhile, becomes his best friend and eventually gets inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

• created the movie profile