{"id":1526914,"date":"2026-07-22T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=8e062a1deb32348ee81781bbb7ba503b"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:01:11","slug":"glen-powell-to-star-as-lou-gehrig-in-new-film-directed-by-richard-linklater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1526914","title":{"rendered":"Glen Powell to star as Lou Gehrig in new film directed by Richard Linklater"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/07\/a9de00c27bf78fe558988230ac251f75.png\" alt\/><figcaption>Glen Powell attends the Los Angeles special screening of 'How To Make a Killing' at AMC The Grove 14 on Feb. 14, 2026, in LA. (Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Glen Powell is taking on the role of Lou Gehrig.<\/p><p>The actor is set to star in a film about the baseball legend for Universal Pictures directed by Richard Linklater, ABC Audio has confirmed.<\/p><p>This currently untitled project will be produced by <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> creator Lorne Michaels alongside Erin David for Broadway Video's first-look deal with Universal.<\/p><p>Powell will also produce the film, while Linklater is in talks to produce it. <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> and <em>Artificial<\/em> writer Simon Rich is attached to write the movie's screenplay.<\/p><p>Gehrig is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He spent all of his 17-year career playing for the New York Yankees, where he won six World Series titles.<\/p><p>In 1939, the athlete was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. He died at age 37 in 1941.<\/p><p>Powell and Linklater first collaborated on the 2016 film <em>Everybody Wants Some!!<\/em> Powell was directed by Linklater on the film, which follows Texan college baseball players in the year 1980.<\/p><p>The pair then produced and co-wrote the script of the 2024 romantic comedy <em>Hit Man<\/em>, which Linklater directed and Powell starred in.<\/p><p>Powell's relationship with Universal Pictures started with the 2024 film <em>Twisters<\/em>. According to the studio, that film \"overperformed against all industry expectations\" and became the biggest opening for a natural disaster film ever at the domestic box office.&nbsp;It grossed $267.8 million overall in the domestic box office.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Powell attends the Los Angeles special screening of &#8216;How To Make a Killing&#8217; at AMC The Grove 14 on Feb. 14, 2026, in LA. (Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images)Glen Powell is taking on the role of Lou Gehrig.The actor is set to star in a film about the ba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1919,"featured_media":1526920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-22\/Getty_GlenPowell_072326.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 18:17:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-07-22\/Getty_GlenPowell_072326.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526919,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526914\/revisions\/1526919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}