The film is written, directed and produced by Tim Williams<\/a>, a former student and player of Rosacker.<\/p>\n \u201cFollows a decorated Marine officer forced into early retirement who in 1969 is recruited by a struggling Texas prep school to restore order among rebellious students through discipline and leadership,\u201d the film\u2019s logline reads.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfac In case you missed it: <\/p>\n Filming underway on film about Fort Worth football coach<\/p>\n Born in 1918, Rosacker grew up in Kansas and later quit college to enlist in the Marine Corps as U.S. involvement in World War II loomed.<\/p>\n Rosacker served through World War II and also saw action during the Korean War, according his biography on the film\u2019s website<\/a>. In 1964, a 46-year-old Rosacker was forced into early retirement after a physical determined he was not qualified to perform the duties of his rank.<\/p>\n A year later, Rosacker began his first ever civilian job as a history teacher in Oklahoma, where he stayed for a few years.<\/p>\n In 1969, Rosacker accepted an offer to be the athletic director at Fort Worth Country Day<\/a>. Rosacker kicked a struggling athletic program into gear and saw success in football and other sports during his tenure at the school, which ended in 1981.<\/p>\n Rosacker went on to coach at Arlington\u2019s Oakridge School for a few years and fully retired from coaching in 1985. In 1988, Country Day\u2019s football stadium was named after Rosacker.<\/p>\n He died in 2001 in Fort Worth. Rosacker was 83 years old.<\/p>\n More on \u2018The Colonel\u2019<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first project about Rosacker that\u2019s seen the light of day.<\/p>\n A decade before cameras rolled on his feature film, Williams made a short film about Rosacker<\/a> in 2016. A few years later in 2021, Williams made a documentary about Rosacker\u2019s Country Day tenure called \u201cThe Colonel\u2019s Playbook.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n In 2024, Williams told Paper City<\/a> that he\u2019s been trying to make a feature film about Rosacker for more than 15 years. The article mentioned that filming was meant to get underway that fall with Neal McDonough (\u201dThe Last Rodeo\u201d)<\/a> in the lead role.<\/p>\n As for why Stranden is in and McDonough is out, Deadline states that the latter exited the project some time ago for undisclosed reasons. No release date has been set for \u201cThe Colonel.\u201d<\/p>\n Related Stories from Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n
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