Skydance has given a pink card to Matthew McConaughey‘s forthcoming characteristic movie. The manufacturing firm has pulled the plug on Dallas Sting, a characteristic movie starring McConaughey as a girl’s soccer coach, simply six weeks earlier than manufacturing was set to start. 

Per Deadline, the undertaking fell aside after Skydance and numerous producers obtained “disturbing allegations” pertaining to points of the movie’s true story narrative. Skydance launched an investigation into the allegations and reportedly discovered them to be severe sufficient to scrap your entire movie. McConaughey has additionally bowed out of the movie. 

Dallas Sting was set to be an inspirational drama primarily based on a real story of a Dallas ladies’s soccer group who, in 1984, went to China to compete towards a number of the world’s finest soccer groups on the first world championship for girls’s soccer as President Reagan tried to open up relations with China. McConaughey was to play Invoice Kinder, a Texan with no prior soccer teaching expertise who coached a U.S. group comprised of Dallas highschool women who performed collectively in 19-and-under league and known as themselves “The Sting” after the Robert Redford film. Kinder led “The Sting” to upsets over Australia, Japan, China, and ultimately Italy within the championship sport. 

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s Kari Skogland was hooked up to direct the movie with a script from GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.  Dopesick‘s Kaitlyn Dever was confirmed to play McConaughey’s daughter, and an in depth casting seek for gifted feminine soccer gamers with appearing chops was nearing completion earlier than all of it fell aside. The undertaking was developed by Skydance and Berlanti Schechter Productions, and financed by Skydance. Apple had a primary have a look at the movie on account of their general cope with Skydance. 

Manufacturing for Dallas Sting was scheduled to begin in October in New Orleans. Per the Hollywood Reporter, a supply near producers mentioned that they have been “dissatisfied by the event,” and nonetheless consider that “the story of the 1984 group and its younger ladies deserved to be instructed.”  

Skydance and McConaughey didn’t instantly reply to V.F.‘s request for remark.