Outcasts United: A True Story About Soccer and Immigration Made for Hollywood?

Here's an odd and utterly shocking (to me) bit of media trivia: according to media blogs the highest ever fee paid for movie rights to the New York Times is for a story about youth soccer in suburban Atlanta. After a fierce bidding war between Hollywood studios spurred by Warren St. John's Times cover article on "Outcasts United" – a team of refugee youth in the small town of Clarkston, Georgia called the Fugees – Universal ultimately paid $3 million to the Times, to St.

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