I had seen him in "21 Jump Street" and I thought, 'This kid is going to be a star, he has charisma, he's tough, he's good looking.' I thought maybe he'd like to do something different. Ward: We wanted Johnny Depp for Craig's role. Duane Davis, who played linebacker Alvin Mack, says he still gets asked about "The Program." IMDBĭavis: There was a linebacker who went to Florida State. I remember walking into the locker room, and seeing this guy who was sculpted like a Greek god. This was one of the movies I really wanted. There's very few movies that you want that you get. Wanted to be able to bring people into the action so they could get that feel for the game.ĭavis: I was pretty pumped because I played college football. Pridgen: The goal for David Ward, he wanted it to be the most impactful football film that anybody had ever seen.
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The part of it where players would go to school, get injured, don't ever get to play pro football and don't wind up with an education, in the case of Alvin Mack.
I always wanted to make a college football movie, but I didn't just want it to be about winning the big game. Players receiving gifts, players using PEDs, just a lot of things swirling around college football that I thought would be interesting. Ward: At that particular time there were a lot of things going on in college football. Jake Trotter and Jeremy Willis talk to actor Duane Davis, who played the role of Alvin Mack in the CFB cult classic "The Program" about the film and why it's so beloved. So he cast the movie with that in mind, then put his "team" through a real training camp in Columbia, South Carolina, with 65 extras, who played the roles of ESU's on-field opponents (Georgia Tech, Michigan, Iowa and Mississippi State). He wanted actors who could hold their own as players. Sparky Woods - former South Carolina coach, 1989-93 Recruiting and training campĭirector David Ward, who won an Academy Award for writing "The Sting" and also wrote and directed "Major League," conceived "The Program" as a movie authentic to college football of the early 1990s. Kristy Swanson - Camile Shafer, tennis player Here's the inside story of college football's favorite cult movie: Many actors on "The Program" were intimidated by James Caan (left) who was an acting legend having been in "The Godfather," "Thief" and "Brian's Song." Touchstone Pictures And still eminently quotable 25 years later, boasting realistic game action the movie industry had never seen before, "The Program" would come to be loved by football fans and those who played the game. Steven Spielberg ruled the box office with "Jurassic Park" and the Academy Awards with "Schindler's List." It also was a memorable year for sports movies with "The Sandlot," "Cool Runnings" and "Rudy."īut that same year, another sports movie, which made only $23 million at the box office and was temporarily pulled from theaters, told a different side of college football.
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There, he smashes his head through two car windows with two assistant coaches watching.Īndrew Bryniarski (Lattimer): Every day of my life, there's not a day that doesn't go by where someone doesn't yell, "Place at the table!"ġ993 was a banner year for movies. Place at the table!" Lattimer shouts, before shoving through a crowd of players and slamming open a set of double-doors to the parking lot. Steve Lattimer scans a typed sheet displaying the ESU depth chart and sees his name at starting defensive end.
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