Movie News - Movies and Musicals with Aedín Gormley
Jul 25, 2026 · 14 min · 10 segments
Glenn Powell to play famous sports star and Tom Cruise lines up a sequel to Days of Thunder.
Gareth Daly
Aedín GormleyHost
So now it looks like that Powell is going to play the iconic New York Yankee player Lou Gehrig in a new, currently untitled biopic Simon Rich is writing here.
I think he played like 2,130 consecutive games in his career, 17-year career, winning six World Series titles.
It came, though, to an abrupt halt when he was diagnosed with motor neuron, ALS, which is referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Now, Gary Cooper played him in a 1942 movie called Pride of the Yankees.
And now, Glenn Powell, it seems, is going to be taking on that role for Richard Linklater.
So now it looks like that Powell is going to play the iconic New York Yankee player Lou Gehrig in a new, currently untitled biopic Simon Rich is writing here.
I think he played like 2,130 consecutive games in his career, 17-year career, winning six World Series titles.
It came, though, to an abrupt halt when he was diagnosed with motor neuron, ALS, which is referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Now, Gary Cooper played him in a 1942 movie called Pride of the Yankees.
And now, Glenn Powell, it seems, is going to be taking on that role for Richard Linklater.
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