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MEN'S LACROSSE COACH MIKE DALY MAKES HOLLYWOOD CAMEO APPEARANCE IN CROOKED ARROWS MOVIE
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| Coach Mike Daly addresses the
Jumbos during the 2011 NCAA Championship game (photo by Doug
Kapustin) |
MEDFORD - Tufts men's lacrosse coach Mike Daly participated in the filming of Crooked Arrows at St. John's Prep in Danvers on Saturday morning. According to the movie's website, Crooked Arrows will be America's first mainstream lacrosse movie. Filmed this summer, the movie is scheduled for release around the country next spring during the peak of lacrosse season.
Crooked Arrows is modeled upon the consistently successful underdog sports movie popularized by Mighty Ducks, Bad News Bears, Hoosiers, and Bend It Like Beckham – set in the fresh, contemporary worlds of Native American reservations, prep schools, and lacrosse.
Daly was one of several esteemed college lacrosse coaches who played themselves in the movie. He was joined by Syracuse's John Desko, Virginia's Dom Starsia, Harvard's Chris Wojcik and Brown's Lars Tiffany among others. They were filimed scouting a championship lacrosse game between a prestigious prep school and an underdog Native American reservation high school team.
"The producers reached out to me to do a cameo, and I said yes for the program and exposure," Daly said. "It turned out to be a pretty big deal. I brought my wife Norah and the kids and they treated all of us first class with gift bags, caterers, behind the scenes, director's tent. It was a pretty cool experience."
The lead producters of the film are J. Todd Harris and Mitchell Peck. Harris has produced 37 movies in the last 16 years. His most recent release is the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated The Kids Are All Right from Universal’s Focus Features. Prior to that he produced the Sundance Film Festival entry Bottle Shock, which was one of 2008’s highest grossing independent films. Peck recently produced Priest, a $70 million 3D vampire-western, for Sony-Screen Gems. He has sold a dozen movies and television shows to Hollywood's major studios, including 20th Century Fox, Columbia, New Regency, Disney, MGM, MTV and New Line.
The cast includes Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), Gil Birmingham (the Twilight series), Crystal Allen, Chelsea Ricketts, Dennis Ambriz, Kakaionstha Betty Deer and many lacrosse athletes who were hired to star in the film.
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