Glen Powell is set to star as New York Yankees icon Lou Gehrig in a new film from director Richard Linklater.

Richard Linklater remains prolific enough—if only between his ever-shooting Merrily We Roll Along and planned project on the transcendentalists—that this already has the air of something we only recall by reading a years-old headline and wondering whatever happened there. Nevertheless, it's nice to read he plans on reteaming with Glen Powell on another baseball movie.

Richard Linklater will direct Glen Powell in a film about the life of Lou Gehrig for Universal.

Glen Powell, Richard Linklater will team up for a biopic on Yankees great Lou Gehrig, Lorne Michaels producing.