George Pimentel/WireImage Rossif ... cast as the lead role in the series, he was unaware that his father Donald had been working for decades to bring the story to life with a movie adaptation.

Not only because his son, Rossif Sutherland, is the star of the series, but because Donald himself tried to get the books on which this series is based adapted into a movie decades prior.

When Rossif, 45, was cast as the lead role in the series ... tirelessly to "get a movie version off the ground" for 30 years. Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage Donald Sutherland (left) and Rossif ...

No. 23 “Without Limits” Billy Crudup starred as famed track star Steve Prefontaine and Donald Sutherland played ... in probably his best role ever. The movie has its dated elements (Nicholson ...

15% of whatever the movie made at the box office BEFORE costs were subtracted. Again, Sutherland politely declined. Donald insisted on an up-front cash payment if he was going to accept the role.

Being a musician himself, Sutherland likens a great film cast to a band, with Hackman as the lead guitarist and Scheider as the bassist, each playing a pivotal role in the film's dynamic ...

Breakthrough roles can’t be manufactured or precision-engineered, not that Donald Sutherland was expecting anything more than a single line of dialogue when he first signed on for the movie that would ...