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Strong Studios options corporate exec and football coach Joe Moglia’s life story

Joe Moglia takes to the field with his Coastal Carolina University team

Fledgling New York-based producer and distributor Strong Studios has optioned the rights to Monte Burke’s biographical novel about the life of corporate executive, author and American football coach Joe Moglia.

The subsidiary of Ballantyne Strong, which launched earlier this year, is developing a feature film based on 4th & Goal: One Man’s Quest to Recapture His Dream, with Todd Robinson attached to write and direct the sports drama.

Moglia, Ballantyne Strong’s chairman Kyle Cerminara and CEO Mark Roberson, and Strong Studios’ president David Ozer will serve as executive producers and Monte Burke will be an associate producer.

Strong Studios said it is beginning discussions with potential distributors, broadcasters and streamers.

Published in 2020, the book follows Moglia’s life from his roots growing up in a rough-and-tumble neighbourhood in New York City to his rise through the high school and college football ranks to become the defensive coordinator at Dartmouth, and his dream of becoming a head coach of a college football team.

However, with a family on the way, Moglia was forced to abandon that dream and enter corporate America to make ends meet, landing a job at Merrill Lynch and 25 years later standing at the zenith of the financial world as CEO of financial firm TD Ameritrade.

In 2008, Moglia stunned the corporate world and voluntarily walked away from his lucrative job to becoming a college football head coach and, ultimately, eight-time Hall of Fame inductee.

Burke said: “4th & Goal: One Man’s Quest to Recapture His Dream is a detailed account of Joe Moglia’s amazing and uplifting life story, his quest to achieve his ultimate dream and its stunning conclusion. It’s a tale of overcoming adversity… of never giving up… of never losing sight of one’s true goals in life. It is a story, quite literally, of a dream deferred, but never forgotten.”

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