Ananova:

Ben Affleck has signed up to star in Disney's Jerry Bruckheimer production of Glory Road.

According to Comingsoon, Affleck will star as a basketball coach who led the first all-black college line-up of players to the championship.

The actor will play Don Haskins, whose integrated 1966 Texas Western team beat an all-white team from Kentucky. Haskins' team was among the first college teams to use a high-speed style.

Haskins won the national colleges title four years after taking over the team and helped open further the college game to African-Americans.

The project reunites Affleck with Bruckheimer, with whom he worked on the Michael Bay-directed films Armageddon and Pearl Harbor.