Champions is an upcoming comedy movie directed by Bobby Farrelly starring Woody Harrelson and Ernie Hudson. A stubborn and hotheaded minor league basketball coach is forced to train a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.
The Star: Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson at arrivals for THE PRIZEWINNER OF DEFIANCE, OHIO Premiere, Loews Lincoln Square Theater, New York, NY, September 19, 2005. Photo by: Brad Barket/Everett Collection. Woody Harrelson. Depostiphotos
Woody Harrelson is an American actor, writer and producer known for his numerous roles in both comedic and dramatic films. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards as well as four Golden Globe Awards, and has won one Emmy Award. Woody got his start on the hit sitcom Cheers, where he played Woody Boyd from 1985-1993. Woody’s breakout role was in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers in 1994, followed by the hit comedy film Kingpin in 1996. He gained mainstream recognition with roles such as Mickey Knox in the dark crime satire Natural Born Killers (1994), Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), and Tallahassee in Zombieland (2009). Woody has also starred in several critically acclaimed dramas such as The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). His more recent works include Venom (2018), Coffee & Kareem (2020) and Zack Snyder’s Justice League 2021. Woody will star opposite of Jennifer Lawrence in the upcoming Netflix drama Don’t Look Up.