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Kathy Bates on "Blind Side" team

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Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:32am EDT
Actress Kathy Bates arrives for the premiere of the film ''The Day The Earth Stood Still'' in New York December 9, 2008. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Kathy Bates has joined Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side," a football comedy-drama based on the best-selling novel by Michael Lewis.

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The project tells the true story of football player Michael Oher, projected to be one of the first players selected in this year's NFL draft.

Bates will play a no-nonsense tutor Bullock hires to help raise Oher, a homeless black teen taken in by Bullock's well-to-do white family. The veteran actress most recently appeared in "Revolutionary Road."

The new film, based on Lewis' book "The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game," marks the first project for director John Lee Hancock since 2004's "The Alamo." FedEx founder Fred Smith's Warner Bros.-based Alcon Entertainment is financing.

(Editing by Dean Goodman at Reuters)

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