Variety is reporting that Harrison Ford has been tapped to play Branch Rickey in "42" the new movie about Jackie Robinson.

Chadwick Boseman will play Robinson in the Brian Helgeland directed picture.

Boseman, also a playwright, writer and director, has had experience playing famous athletes. A few years ago he portrayed running back Floyd Little in

"The Express" the movie about Syracuse icon Ernie Davis.

Rickey was the executive instrumental in bringing Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. That move broke the color line in Major League Baseball.