New 42 Featurette Online – Fresh look at Harrison Ford in the baseball biopic

You might have expected that a biopic of the first black player in professional baseball would be released to vie for the Oscars, but instead Warner Bros is planning to release 42 in April in the US (with no UK date currently set).

Now a new featurette has shown up giving us a new look at the movie, including Harrison Ford’s rather extreme makeup, which makes his difficult to recognise.

42 tells the true story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s colour barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie stars Harrison Ford as the innovative Dodger’s general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, and Chadwick Boseman (The Express) as Robinson, the heroic African American who was the first man to break the colour line in the big leagues.