Deadline has brought word that the upcoming football drama 12 Mighty Orphans is setting up a reunion of apocalyptic proportions as Apocalypse Now stars Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen have signed on to join Luke Wilson (Zombieland: Double Tap).
Wilson will play the team’s coach, Rusty Russell, a WWI veteran who arrives with a troubled past, much of which is due to being abandoned in an orphanage when he was a child.
Mike De Luca will produce the film alongside Houston Hill, Angelique De Luca, and Brinton Bryan.
Looking for a way to turn his life around, he accepts a job as head coach for a Texas orphanage football team and helps redirect his players’ feelings of loss into a powerful team that ultimately ended up in the Texas state championship.