Matthew Fox Net

SOUTH BEND — McG is anxiously perched on a bench in the back of the College Football Hall of Fame’s Stadium Theater as the lights finally come up.

His eyes scan the room until he spots Jack Lengyel, the real-life coach at the heart of McG’s film, “We Are Marshall,” which chronicles the rebirth of Marshall University’s football program after the 1970 team was killed in a plane crash.

Lengyel is smiling.

The two work their way toward each other and embrace while the nearly 200 people who saw this special advance screening Tuesday night continue to stand and applaud the emotionally charged film.

It’s the first time Lengyel has seen “We Are Marshall,” which was finished Nov. 8.

“I’m in complete awe,” he says. Relief washes over McG’s face. more

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Although the film won’t arrive in theaters until next month, “We Are Marshall” already has earned raves from the reviewers who matter most to the movie’s creators.

“I just think it was a brilliant, brilliant job,” former Marshall football coach Jack Lengyel said Tuesday night after watching a preview screening at the College Football Hall of Fame. “(It’s) one of the finest pieces of film that I’ve seen, that I know something about. I want to thank them personally for the great job they did.”

The movie, which opens nationwide on Dec. 22, details how Lengyel and the rest of the Marshall community responded to one of the worst disasters in U.S. sports history.

Marshall’s football team was returning to campus after a game at East Carolina on Nov. 14, 1970, when a plane crash killed all 75 people aboard. more

While LOST fans scratch their heads over what to do at 9:00 tonight, preview audiences of “We Are Marshall”, which made some test screenings last night, have the perfect job in mind for LOST’s leading man Matthew Fox: Movie Star.

Reception to the film, which chronicles the astonishing rebuilding of a football team killed in a freak airplane crash, has been overwhelmingly positive; with much of the praise being targeted at LOST Matthew Fox.

With rampant rumors that (avert your spoiler irritated eyes) Fox is leaving LOST shortly to pursue a film career, the praise is a sweet counter-punch to the critics who claimed Fox didn’t have what it takes to make it on the big screen. more

Go to Spotlight Ranger to watch a video of a young Matthew Fox in a film called “Connecting Flight”.

http://www.spotlightranger.com/Connecting%20Flight.aspx

I uploaded screen caps at the gallery.

Visit UGO and The New York Post for more interviews with Matthew about LOST and We Are Marshall.